According to one mother who spoke with her son who is in the jail, inmates screamed out: "We're going to die back here. There ...

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

jointly run by California's corrections and fire departments, trains inmates to fight wildfires and respond to other emergencies. Inmate firefighters earn between $5.80 and $10.24 daily ...

Some inmates at the Northeast New Mexico Corrections Facility were sickened from a gas leak detected Sunday morning, a Clayton Fire Department news release said. The leak was found in Housing Pod ...

Inmates help firefighters to extinguish the last embers in the hills of Mandeville Canyon after the Palisades Fire burned part of it, on Jan. 13, 2025, in Los Angeles. "CDCR Fire Camp Program ...

All proceeds will be donated to the Pasadena Humane Society, California Fire Department, LAFD Foundation, and the ...

Inmates who voluntarily sign up for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s Conservation (Fire) Camp Program and work as firefighters get paid $5.80 to $10.24 per day ...

When deployed, those firefighters earn from $5.80 to $10.24 a day, depending on experience, and an extra $1 an hour during active wildfires, according to the corrections department. That means the ...

LOS ANGELES - Hundreds of inmate firefighters joined the frontlines to help battle the massive and deadly wildfires in Southern California. Incarcerated fire crew members earn between $5.80 and $ ...

Fire crews are getting a unique hand in trying to slow the blazes tearing through Los Angeles - the California prison system Nearly 400 inmates are among the 14,000 emergency responders working on ...