The applications used the stolen identities of prison inmates, who are not eligible for relief, and others, prosecutors said.

One of the critical jobs that prisoners can be required to work is fighting wildfires. While salaried firefighters in ...

Proposition 6 would have banned the use of involuntary servitude as punishment for crimes. It was rejected by California ...

California has rejected a ballot measure that would have amended the state constitution to ban forced prison labor ...

Californians voted down Proposition 6, a ballot measure that eliminates the state’s constitutional provision that allows ...

People who are incarcerated are often paid less than $1 an hour to fight fires, clean cells and do landscaping work at ...

Voters appear to be rejecting Proposition 6 in California, a measure to end involuntary servitude as a punishment for crime.

"All the people in prison that I know want to work. We just want to do it on our own terms," writes Steve Brooks.

A man serving a lengthy prison sentence after being convicted in 2019 in the human trafficking of a 15-year-old girl in the ...

Cal Poly Humboldt’s bachelor’s program offers new opportunity to people incarcerated at maximum-security Pelican Bay State ...

California lawmakers agreed to put Proposition 6 on the ballot at the urging of criminal justice advocates. Since 2018, at ...

California voters have rejected a measure amending the state Constitution to ban forced labor in any form. The constitution ...