The wildfires sweeping across the Los Angeles region are decimating land property and taking lives. They are also reigniting ...

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

How do prison labor programs work? Prison labor programs have links to the passage of the 13th Amendment, which abolished ...

Using inmate labor to fight fires has been a practice in California since the 1940s. Where did it start and what do participants actually do and get paid?

Incarcerated fire crew members earn as little as $5.80 per day, but a bill recently introduced by California Assemblymember ...

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

Incarcerated firefighters on the lower end of the pay scale currently earn around $30 a day during an active emergency.

Inmates become firefighters for the chance to cut time off their sentences, to get outside the prison walls and for training ...

started a fundraiser on Friday to support the fire crews of California’s prisons. Jan. 11, 2025 Other considerations belong in the discussion of helping inmate firefighters, including that they ...

California prison inmates were sent to help control the flames on the Hughes Fire, the latest in a series of wildfires that ...