California Cash-Saving Jail-Release Program Depletes Crew Of Inmate Firefighters

June 17, 2003
The purge of more than 1,700 nonviolent criminals from county jails might be easing the Sheriff's Department's budget woes, but it has devastated a once-thriving inmate-firefighting program in the Santa Clarita Valley
The purge of more than 1,700 nonviolent criminals from county jails might be easing the Sheriff's Department's budget woes, but it has devastated a once-thriving inmate-firefighting program in the Santa Clarita Valley

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