Firefighters scrambled Sunday to make further progress against wildfires that have killed 16 people in the Los Angeles area ...
California has deployed firefighters from Mexico as well as nearly 1,000 prison inmates to help combat deadly wildfires that ...
They join thousands of firefighting and emergency personnel who have been dispatched to respond to multiple fires throughout ...
Hundreds of incarcerated people are firefighting in Los Angeles. They are paid a maximum of $10.24 a day, and receive an ...
In California, incarcerated people become firefighters, but the low pay — and few job prospects when they're out — can make ...
On Friday, state finance officials unveiled the governor’s full $322 billion budget proposal which funds Newsom’s signature ...
The Los Angeles-based Anti-Recidivism Coalition, a nonprofit dedicated to ending mass incarceration, started a fundraiser on ...
More than 900 prison firefighters were responding to the crisis in Los Angeles — but their pay is low and the ethics of their ...
As of Friday morning, 939 incarcerated firefighters have been working “around the clock cutting fire lines and removing fuel ...
Roughly 30 percent of firefighters battling the California wildfires are incarcerated, earning time off their sentences and ...