California prison inmates were sent to help control the flames on the Hughes Fire, the latest in a series of wildfires that have impacted Los Angeles County in the last several weeks.

The FBI would eventually call John Orr the most prolific serial arsonist of the 20th century, and when he went on trial in ...

But the numbers have dwindled over the years, largely due to state prison reform and the COVID-19 pandemic ... Yes, ...

In the field, they can be seen in prison-orange jumpsuits embedded alongside members of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire). The incarcerated firefighters have ...

California's program is not without controversy, as the inmates are paid little for dangerous and difficult work. Many ...

A chief with Cal Fire, the state agency that fights wildfires ... serving time in state prison. (More than a thousand of the firefighters who have worked Southern California’s deadly fires ...

Those numbers have dwindled in recent years due to a declining prison population. “Wildfires are a constant and formidable challenge for California, and the California Department of ...

The state has long relied on incarcerated people to help fight wildfires in California, which are burning hotter and faster as the climate crisis intensifies. But prison reform activists have ...

Nearly 800 prison inmates have been temporarily freed to assist firefighters in controlling the deadly Southern California wildfires that have burned with no end in sight since Tuesday.

About 900 of them are prison inmates ... Through the California Conservation (Fire) Camp Program, incarcerated people are among those risking their lives to fight the flames.