A ‘brush with catastrophe’: Close call with Hughes fire stirs concerns about jail safety
Flames from the Hughes fire came within a mile of the Castaic jails before firefighters pushed them back. Inmate advocates ...
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United States: Prisoners freed to become firefighters and tackle Los Angeles fires
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) has just announced that 783 inmates have been temporarily ...
California’s untapped pool of firefighters
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 ...
California should pardon inmates who risked their lives to fight recent wildfires | Opinion
Granting clemency would affirm our commitments to justice and human rights and to a vision of dignity and fairness for all.” ...
Opinion
Arson is not equal to murder: California Supreme Court should overturn death row verdict ...
Raymond Lee Oyler set a fire that killed five firefighters in 2006. The California Supreme Court will decide if he remains on death row, writes Robin Epley of The Sacramento Bee.
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Incarcerated firefighters do risky, low-pay work. Many say it's the best job behind bars.
The Marshall Project spotlights some of the incarcerated firefighters doing one of the riskiest, lowest-paying, but ...
1 person killed in Denver house fire
Denver fire officials said firefighters rescued two people from the house despite heavy fire and smoke, but one of those ...
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California Wildfires
many are looking for ways to make Los Angeles safer from wildfires. But clearing dense shrubs on the hillsides could actually make the fire danger worse.