Travis Barker is ensuring the inmate firefighters battling the Los Angeles wildfires understand how appreciated they’re for risking their lives through the ongoing catastrophe.
TMZ has discovered Travis made it some extent to pay a go to to the Rose Bowl Advanced in Pasadena, California on Monday, the place he met with members of the Anti-Recidivism Coalition … made up of nonviolent safety inmates who’re on the entrance traces with different first responders.
Travis tells us … “A number of them got here from the juvenile system and this program offers them the power for actual change and to make a distinction. To see the humanity in all of them was wonderful.”
TB says this exhibits the coalition is efficacious for each the inmates and the group endangered by the fires, including … “They noticed themselves as criminals earlier than as a result of that’s all anybody informed them — and now they’re being informed they’re heroes, first responders, and so they start to see themselves otherwise.”
Travis additionally met with members of the Nationwide Guard on the complicated — they’re additionally on the entrance traces serving to safe affected neighborhoods.
ARC was formally created in 2013 and has served greater than 1,000 incarcerated youth to date. We’re informed filmmaker Scott Budnick was there Monday … he routinely works to finish mass incarceration in California.
We’re informed Travis hopes to proceed his relationship with the Anti-Recidivism Coalition and assist inmates nonetheless he can.
