The Marshall Project spotlights some of the incarcerated firefighters doing one of the riskiest, lowest-paying, but ...

More than a thousand incarcerated firefighters helped beat back the LA blazes. This is what you should know about their work.

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

Among the crews that responded, and continue to, were more than 1,000 incarcerated firefighters paid as little as $5.80 each ...

jointly run by California's corrections and fire departments, trains inmates to fight wildfires and respond to other emergencies. Inmate firefighters earn between $5.80 and $10.24 daily ...

As firefighters are battling multiple huge blazes tearing through Los Angeles, California’s prisons have deployed more than 1,000 incarcerated people to battle on the frontlines. The California ...

AMY GOODMAN: Historically, incarcerated firefighters has made up as much as 30% of the California wildfire force? Is that right? KERI BLAKINGER: Yeah, the numbers have dwindled, though ...

931 incarcerated firefighters join California wildfire battle efforts Inmates earn $5.80-$10.24/day plus $1/hr during fire emergencies Mexico sends 72 firefighters to aid Southern California's ...

Incarcerated firefighters can have years of experience by the time they're released. But getting a job in the field is still difficult.

AB 469 seeks to close loopholes and strengthen sentences for looting and fake first responders in disaster zones.

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) classifies fire camp participation as voluntary, LSPC ...

Slavery was abolished in 1865 with the passage of the 13th Amendment, but abolition contained an intentional loophole. It ...