More than 1,800 incarcerated firefighters live year-round in minimum-security conservation camps, also known as “fire camps,” ...

Two inmates from Southern California are suspects in a deadly attack on a third inmate at California State Prison (SAC), ...

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has deployed 931 incarcerated firefighters and 114 support staff ...

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

Using inmate labor to fight fires has been a practice in California since the 1940s. Even some youth offenders from the Lode have joined the battle.

The army of firefighters battling the massive Southern California ... inmates have been deployed by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to help contain the blazes ...

Among the thousands of firefighters battling the relentless wind-driven blazes in Southern California ... is operated by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the California ...

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

Nearly 1,000 incarcerated individuals are among the firefighters working to contain the slew of brush fires spreading across Southern ... the California Department of Corrections and ...

How much do incarcerated firefighters in California make? Will they be able to get firefighting jobs upon release? Here’s ...