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DUI contributing to great bodily injury. Haven't drank or done any drugs since serving my time and I've now been sober for over 4 years.

I mean I probably would have made it into recovery sooner or later without prison, but honestly DUI drivers that hurt people should go to prison and I deserved the time I got.

1. Better food, more relative freedom (as in the camps themselves didn't have barbed wire fences and we got to do work projects out in the community), better pay, and reduced sentences for those that are eligible to have their sentence reduced (I was not).

2. Nonviolent felons (also no sex offenders or arsonists) with less than five years left on their sentence are all eligible. Counsellors decide the vetting process from there if there are any discrepancies.

3. I never met a professional firefighter that wasn't at least respectful to us (some crew captains were dicks but prisoners are also notoriously bad with authority figures so it's whatever) and most were legitimately friendly.

Yes, but only in wild land firefighting seasonally such as the U.S. forestry service's Hot Shots program, or CalFire through the state, though CalFire has more applicants for fewer spots.

Smoke jumpers are like the Navy Seals of the firefighting world