California’s Untapped Pool of Firefighters
Prison inmates help with this dangerous work but can’t do it after their release.
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Opinion: California’s inmate firefighters deserve more than a raise. Make them employees
The Los Angeles-based Anti-Recidivism Coalition, a nonprofit dedicated to ending mass incarceration, started a fundraiser on Friday to support the fire crews of California’s prisons. Jan. 11 ...
I Was an Incarcerated Firefighter. Here’s What I Want People to Know.
I served California as a firefighter. I responded to car accidents, medical emergencies, and wildfires. I was deployed to the ...
The Troubling Slavery-Era Origins of Inmate Firefighting
The history of enslaved firefighters offers a cautionary tale about the dangers of relying on involuntary labor to fight ...
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Pride, Peril and $56 a Month: One Formerly Incarcerated California Firefighter’s Story
More than a thousand incarcerated firefighters helped beat back the LA blazes. This is what you should know about their work.
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For California’s formerly incarcerated firefighters, finding a full-time job requires time and money
Incarcerated firefighters can have years of experience by the time they're released. But getting a job in the field is still difficult.
A ‘brush with catastrophe’: Close call with Hughes fire stirs concerns about jail safety
Flames from the Hughes fire came within a mile of the Castaic jails before firefighters pushed them back. Inmate advocates ...
California lawmakers want tougher penalties for looting and first responder shams
AB 469 seeks to close loopholes and strengthen sentences for looting and fake first responders in disaster zones.
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Drone operator pleads guilty after aircraft strikes firefighting plane over Palisades Fire
Peter Tripp Akemann, 56, agreed to plead guilty to one count of unsafe operation of an unmanned aircraft, federal prosecutors ...