acknowledged the legitimate concerns about fire camps but explained that the hazardous work felt like a better alternative to prison life. He shared that many inmates hope to be part of the fire ...

This program opens eligibility to fire camps for people under age 26 who are incarcerated at certain state prisons. The first group of eligible youth were transferred from Valley State Prison in ...

"We got more freedom when we were in Fire Camp, we were outside of the walls of a prison. We went out into the communities and out into nature during the day," Hahn said. Other inmates involved in ...

But when the fires are finally out, he won't be going back to his family: He'll be returning to the prison ''fire camp'' where he's serving time for drunken driving that injured someone.

The Cuesta Conservation Camp located at the California Men's Colony in San Luis Obispo is one of 35 fire camps within the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Participants in ...

The trio are incarcerated at Fenner Canyon Conservation Camp 41, a medium-security level prison in Valyermo ... and Rehabilitation's Conservation Fire Camps Program, which operates 35 fire ...