Rural counties increasingly rely on prisons to provide firefighters and EMTs who work for free, but the inmates have little protection or future prospects
16 April 2024 Published by: https://www.yahoo.com USA – If you call 911 in rural Georgia, the nearest emergency responders might come from the local prison. In 1963, the Georgia Department of Corrections began a program to train incarcerated people as firefighters to support not only their prisons, but also the surrounding communities. Over time, the […]