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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Maya Yang

California prisoner donates earnings from 13-cent hourly wage to Gaza

A guard stands behind bars at a prison.
Man known only by the name of Hamza donated his paycheck of $17.74 to Gaza relief efforts. Photograph: Stephen Lam/Reuters

Donors have raised more than $100,000 for an incarcerated man in the US who, earning 13 cents an hour in a California prison doing janitorial and porter work, donated his paycheck of $17.74 to Gaza relief efforts.

Last month, the Los Angeles-based film-maker Justin Mashouf who has been in correspondence with the 56-year-old man – known only by the name Hamza – shared photos on social media of Hamza’s October time log and a check of $17.74 with the words, “California department of corrections and rehabilitation”.

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