Assemblymember Isaac Bryan aims to raise wages for incarcerated firefighters in California by amending the state’s penal code.

Prison inmates help with this dangerous work but can’t do it after their release.

California legislators came together on Monday to announce bipartisan legislation to strengthen penalties for looting and ...

Amika Mota was a firefighter in California's Chowchilla prison before her release in 2015. She said fighting wildfires was ...

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Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday signaled a proposal to block California's prison system from cooperating with federal ...

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 ...

Los Angeles’s latest wildfires have reduced communities to ashes and highlighted one of the government’s counterproductive tendencies: barring qualified people from helping their communities ...

The long-standing controversial practice raises questions about exploitation ...

They have proven their mettle on the frontlines, and they have shown a desire to give back to the community to make up for the crimes that got them sent to prison in the first place.

I know all too well the world of the prisoner fire-camps, having myself been through the Rainbow Camp, one of two camps in California that trains female prisoners to fight fires, while I was ...