Inmate firefighters responding to the ongoing Los Angeles fires and working 24-hour shifts are earning $26.90 per day, ...

The work done by prisoners to prevent and contain fires is just as valuable as that of other responders. But unlike their ...

Using inmate labor to fight fires has been a practice in California since the 1940s. Even some youth offenders from the Lode ...

Two inmates from Southern California are suspects in a deadly attack on a third inmate at California State Prison (SAC), ...

When deployed, those firefighters earn from $5.80 to $10.24 a day, depending on experience, and an extra $1 an hour during ...

As wildfires continue to devastate Southern California, thousands of first responders are on the ground, trying to get the destruction under control. About 900 of them are prison inmates.

California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officials announced Thursday. The violence unfolded in the prison’s main exercise yard just after 5 p.m. on Jan. 15, according to a CDCR ...

Meanwhile, the National Weather Service has reinstated its highest level of warning for parts of Los Angeles ... according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

Camp Program has been deploying incarcerated firefighters to help with the LA wildfires. California’s Conservation (Fire) ...