Officials say Mario Campbell, 36, was taken to a nearby hospital outside the prison, where he later fell to his injuries.

As wildfires continue to burn in and around Los Angeles, the fact that many of the firefighters battling the blazes are ...

according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. They join thousands of firefighting and emergency personnel who have been dispatched to respond to multiple fires throughout ...

"It's really important that people remember they are people just like us and are doing a very important and dangerous job." ...

Incarcerated fire crew members earn as little as $5.80 per day, but a bill recently introduced by California Assemblymember Isaac Bryan could change that by giving them a pay raise.

Using inmate labor to fight fires has been a practice in California since the 1940s. Where did it start and what do ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif., Jan. 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The first stages of a lawsuit have initiated against the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) after a hyper-violent ...

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 ...

As the disastrous infernos destroy neighborhoods in Southern California, over 1,000 prisoners are working as “volunteer ...

A prison guard who was allegedly held hostage and sexually assaulted last year by a hyper-violent prisoner at Sierra ...

While extoling a recent California law that strengthens ... What Johnson asked supervisors to do is consider building a corrections and rehabilitation campus to house an expanded alternative ...

The Conservation (Fire) Camp Program, jointly run by California's corrections and fire departments, trains inmates to fight wildfires and respond to other emergencies. Inmate firefighters earn ...