A constitutional amendment to make the change is being channeled through the state legislature.
A constitutional amendment making its way through the California State Legislature proposes to end the practice of forced labor in the state prison system, and a Bay Area nonprofit is helping to lead the charge.
People incarcerated in California can make as little as 8 cents an hour in prisons, where they are required to work under state law. Jobs can include cooking, doing laundry, manufacturing products — like license plates — for outside entities, and even wildland firefighting. Wilson, the Suisun City assemblymember who introduced the amendment earlier this year, told The Examiner the proposal is “extremely important” to her.
Once she was released, Moore said she started working 70-hour weeks because that was what her work schedule inside looked like. EX//TECH&AI: From Delhi to Palo Alto: The AI journey of Umesh Sachdev In today's ExTech&AI, Uniphore CEO Umesh Sachdev took a big risk when he moved his AI company from India to Silicon Valley five years ago. But the gamble is paying off.
“A friend of mine was on the fire line on the front line,” said Moore. “She asked the sergeant to be moved back off the line. “The sergeant said, ‘No, push the line in because all the California firefighters are on the front line.’”
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