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

Officials say Mario Campbell, 36, was taken to a nearby hospital outside the prison, where he later fell to his injuries.

As of Friday, 939 prison inmates have been deployed by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation ... than 55 square miles across the Los Angeles area. At least 10 people are ...

More than 1,000 California inmates have been fighting the wildfires, a controversial practice that dates back to 1915 and results from a complex intersection of public safety, labor economics, and ...

As the disastrous infernos destroy neighborhoods in Southern California, over 1,000 prisoners are working as “volunteer ...

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

How much do incarcerated firefighters in California make? Will they be able to get firefighting jobs upon release? Here’s ...

Fanned by strong winds, the wildfires have killed at least 24 people and swept through 40,000 acres in the Greater Los ...

according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. “Incarcerated firefighters are on the front lines saving lives,” Los Angeles Democrat Isaac Bryan, the bill’s author ...

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

Southern California continues to battle ... to the Eaton and Palisades fires in the Los Angeles area, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR).

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.