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 ...
Some 1,100 prison recruits are battling LA's infernos, risking life and health for less than $2 an hour—yet still the jobs ...
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 ...
The Los Angeles-based Anti-Recidivism Coalition, a nonprofit dedicated to ending mass incarceration, started a fundraiser on ...
Around Los Angeles, firefighting crews continue to battle the Palisades and Eaton fires and other smaller blazes. Nearly a ...
Reporter Anna Sussman has been covering the world of incarcerated fire fighters and recently released her podcast “Fire ...
The fire was sparked when an inmate tried to use an electrical outlet as a lighter, according to the president of the ...