Critics say using incarcerated men and women to fight fires is cheap labour, but supporters say it is rehabilitative.

Roughly 30 percent of firefighters battling the California wildfires are incarcerated, earning time off their sentences and ...

Hundreds of incarcerated firefighters are working to extinguish the massive blaze scorching Los Angeles. Here's how much they ...

Nearly 400 inmates are among the 14,000 emergency responders working on the wildfires that have destroyed at least 2,000 ...

Nearly 800 people in prison have been temporarily freed to assist firefighters in controlling the deadly Southern California ...

As much as 30% of the firefighters force in California may be prison inmates, according to reports. How did we get here? And ...

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State prisoners have long been a part of California's firefighting force. Hundreds of them now are deployed in Los Angeles ...

California has turned to incarcerated firefighters since 1915. To those opposed to the use of inmates as firefighters, the ...

Staff immediately initiated an emergency count, confirming [Santiago] Duran was not at the camp,” a prison statement said.

Hundreds of California prison inmates are helping firefighters battle the out-of-control flames that have engulfed parts of ...