The Riverside County board of Supervisors is considering a proposal to allow as many as 200 of their local inmates to battle fires in California. Prisoners have long played an important role in firefighting in this state, but that's changed recently thanks to prison realignment.
For more on this, we're joined now by Daniel Berlant of Cal Fire.
Riverside County considers using inmates to fight fires
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Take Two for April 23, 2013
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