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

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

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

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

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

the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation confirmed to ABC News. The prisoners, who voluntarily sign up to be a part of the Conservation (Fire) Camps Program, are embedded with ...

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 ...

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.

Nearly 800 incarcerated people are among the more than 7,500 personnel helping fight the historic, and destructive, Southern ... staff," California's Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation ...

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

As wildfires continue to devastate Southern California ... or fire camp program is jointly run by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, CalFire, and Los Angeles County ...

About 800 incarcerated firefighters are battling the unprecedented fires raging across Southern California, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. They join ...