An inmate serving a 16-year sentence for firearms charges was apprehended Thursday morning after he walked away from the ...

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

The Conservation (Fire) Camp Program ... Southern California, thousands of first responders are on the ground, trying to get the destruction under control. About 900 of them are prison inmates.

Nearly 800 prison ... California wildfires that have burned with no end in sight since Tuesday. Those inmates are part of a minimum-security Conservation Camp Program consisting of 35 “fire ...

These minimum-security inmates, participants in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) Fire Camp Program ... have abolished forced prison labor: Colorado, Vermont ...

As wildfires continue to devastate Southern California, thousands of first responders are on the ground, trying to get the destruction under control. About 900 of them are prison inmates.

Prison firefighters are four times more likely to sustain injuries than trained firefighters. A number of incarcerated individuals from California state prisons are working for up to $10 per day ...

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Participants in California are serving state prison sentences and housed at minimum-security facilities called fire camps, where they train as first responders and provide services during fire ...

The California ... prison” because of the poor conditions in the state’s conventional prisons, especially when compared with the “secluded natural settings” of many lower-security fire camps.

Among the thousands of firefighters battling the relentless wind-driven blazes in Southern California this month, hundreds of them are prisoners, members of the statewide Conservation Fire Camp ...