In 2013, nearly 4,000 California inmates in long-term solitary confinement (for decades, in some cases) went on what would ...

fire crews composed of currently and formerly incarcerated individuals were at the forefront of the fight to contain the flames. California’s firefighting programme has long been criticised for ...

Granting clemency would affirm our commitments to justice and human rights and to a vision of dignity and fairness for all.” ...

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.

The history of enslaved firefighters offers a cautionary tale about the dangers of relying on involuntary labor to fight ...

Brian Conroy, a captain at the state firefighting agency Cal Fire, recently led a crew of formerly incarcerated firefighters ...

Hundreds of California prison inmates have joined firefighters in efforts to combat the ongoing Los Angeles wildfires, which have scorched thousands of acres and killed 24 people since erupting on ...

A federal judge in Rhode Island ruled Monday that the Trump administration violated his order calling for a stop on spending ...

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 ...

California's program is not without controversy, as the inmates are paid little for dangerous and difficult work. Many participants, however, say they appreciated the opportunity.

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 ...