"My experience with involuntary servitude is very dark. I feel like you dedicate your time and skills to the prison industry, providing quality work, but you don't benefit from it. I have worked PIA Fabric, silkscreen, and dental and each job has its own dangerous exposures. These jobs cause long term health problems for the incarcerated. How can you say you're rehabilitating someone by oppression and forcing them to work?"

"When I was a slave of the state I was known as W029515. I was an inmate firefighter at Camp Puerta La Cruz, in Warner Springs, CA. The training we received was hiking. We would hike 3 ½ miles several times a week. We depended on and learned from the more experienced incarcerated firefighters. These are the same furious fires that caused fatalities and loss of homes and structures, that we have been experiencing here in California in the past few years. I fought those fires. When fire season starts this year, and you see coverage on your local news, look for the people in the orange jumpsuits. These people are your prison firefighters on the front line, risking their lives for $1/hour. Keep your eyes open, because in California, punishment means slavery."