Barely three months after Californians voted against ballot measures on criminal justice reform, rent control, raising the minimum wage, and banning slave labor in prisons, more than 1,000 incarcerated firefighters were sent to the frontlines to fight devastating wildfires across the Los Angeles area. Had Proposition 6 passed last year, it would have amended the California Constitution to prohibit involuntary work assignments for incarcerated people. Instead, as the wildfires raged, incarcerated workers were forced to risk their lives to help save the very state that refused to protect them, all while being paid nothing more than slave wages for their efforts…