As wildfires continue to burn in and around Los Angeles, the fact that many of the firefighters battling the blazes are ...

More than 1,000 California inmates have been fighting the wildfires, a controversial practice that dates back to 1915 and results from a complex intersection of public safety, labor economics, and ...

Officials say Mario Campbell, 36, was taken to a nearby hospital outside the prison, where he later fell to his injuries.

The work done by prisoners to prevent and contain fires is just as valuable as that of other responders. But unlike their ...

Incarcerated fire crew members earn as little as $5.80 per day, but a bill recently introduced by California Assemblymember Isaac Bryan could change that by giving them a pay raise.

While extoling a recent California law that strengthens ... What Johnson asked supervisors to do is consider building a corrections and rehabilitation campus to house an expanded alternative ...

As the disastrous infernos destroy neighborhoods in Southern California, over 1,000 prisoners are working as “volunteer ...

according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. They join thousands of firefighting and emergency personnel who have been dispatched to respond to multiple fires throughout ...

A state prison, a juvenile detention facility, three county jails and a federal detention center sit just outside the Border ...