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So I think enslaves is a bit much here.

This is a voluntary program, and I'm not getting the impression it's the do this or we punish you voluntary either.

Meanwhile there are actual prisons that will force labor or severely punish you for refusing. That's enslaved.

It's also possible that the fire fighting is voluntary, but if not this, it would have been other mandatory slave work.

Yes there are slaves in prison, I'm just not entirely sure this specific circumstance is it. They are getting slaves wages though.

Fire camp is a program that most prisoners actually want to get into. They get to learn useful skills, the accommodations are better, and the prisoners there don't want to get removed from the program so they're unlikely to be violent. I have a friend who spent 3 years in that program and he greatly preferred it to the prison he transferred from.