according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. They join thousands of firefighting and emergency personnel who have been dispatched to respond to multiple fires throughout ...

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

Hundreds of incarcerated firefighters are risking their lives battling Los Angeles wildfires, raising questions about ...

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

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 ...

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.

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

Nearly 950 inmates are removing timber and brush in an attempt to slow the spread of the wildfires in the Los Angeles area, ...

Nearly 400 inmates are among the 14,000 emergency responders working on the wildfires that have destroyed at least 2,000 buildings and killed at least six in the Los Angeles area. At present, inmates ...

The state has long relied on inmates to help fight wildfires, which activists have largely opposed. Read more at straitstimes.com.

An incarcerated firefighter in Mill Creek, California ... California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR). Their numbers have steadily increased since Tuesday, the day the deadly fires ...

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?