Los Angeles’s latest wildfires have reduced communities to ashes and highlighted one of the government’s counterproductive tendencies: barring qualified people from helping their communities because ...

Flames from the Hughes fire came within a mile of the Castaic jails before firefighters pushed them back. Inmate advocates ...

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) has just announced that 783 inmates have been temporarily ...

Granting clemency would affirm our commitments to justice and human rights and to a vision of dignity and fairness for all.” ...

Photo of firefighters courtesy of Google Creative Commons The wildfires in LA have been raging nonstop for weeks. This ...

More than a thousand incarcerated firefighters helped beat back the LA blazes. This is what you should know about their work.

Jelly Roll will make his acting debut on the CBS drama series 'Fire Country,' where he will play a hospital orderly. The episode premieres in April.

The history of enslaved firefighters offers a cautionary tale about the dangers of relying on involuntary labor to fight ...

Investigators are working to determine if a man serving a prison term for a Sacramento County burglary was killed by his cellmate on Wednesday, according to the California Department of Corrections ...

An inmate serving a 16-year sentence for firearms charges was apprehended Thursday morning after he walked away from the Acton Conservation Camp in Los Angeles County. Jessie Meza, 38, was discovered ...

Incarcerated firefighters play a crucial role in a state where wildfires seemingly get worse every year. But the state’s ...

But in this case the climate change fingerprint is big enough that it stands out, she said. Those conditions are part of what makes California attractive to 25 million residents, said study co-author ...