Over 1,100 California inmates have worked around the clock to help fight Los Angeles-area fires that have killed at least 25 ...
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 ...
Incarcerated fire crew members earn as little as $5.80 per day, but a bill recently introduced by California Assemblymember Isaac Bryan could change that by giving them a pay raise.
By Cayla Mihalovich, CalMatters About 800 incarcerated firefighters are battling the unprecedented fires raging across ...
Fanned by strong winds, the wildfires have killed at least 24 people and swept through 40,000 acres in the Greater Los ...
As wildfires continue to burn in and around Los Angeles, the fact that many of the firefighters battling the blazes are ...
Gavin Newsom on Instagram last week saying wages for inmates fighting the Los Angeles County ... as the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation calls it, is an exemplar of prison ...
Tens of thousands of people ordered to flee their homes as wildfires tore through Los Angeles were told Thursday ... one of ...
Among the thousands of firefighters battling the relentless wind-driven blazes in Southern California this month, hundreds of them are prisoners, members of the statewide Conservation Fire Camp ...
The Blink-182 drummer was photographed at the Rose Bowl Complex in Pasadena, California, earlier this week, where he met with ...
The Conservation (Fire) Camp Program, jointly run by California's corrections and fire departments, trains inmates to fight wildfires and respond to other emergencies. Inmate firefighters earn ...