Incarcerated firefighters on the lower end of the pay scale currently earn around $30 a day during an active emergency.
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 ...
Inmates become firefighters for the chance to cut time off their sentences, to get outside the prison walls and for training ...
As the disastrous infernos destroy neighborhoods in Southern California, over 1,000 prisoners are working as “volunteer ...
and Los Angeles County Fire Department. The camps are minimum-security facilities at which incarcerated people can volunteer. At the 35 camps operated across 25 California counties, inmates learn ...
The prisoners, who voluntarily sign up to be a part of the Conservation (Fire) Camps Program, are embedded with the California Department ... agency. Inmates help firefighters to extinguish ...
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Inmates who voluntarily sign up for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s Conservation (Fire) Camp Program and work as firefighters get paid $5.80 to $10.24 per day ...
SAN DIEGO COUNTY, Calif. — Firefighters have recently battled blazes across southern California. Incarcerated firefighters ...