Kim Kardashian wants higher pay rate for inmate firefighters

Around Los Angeles, firefighting crews continue to battle the Palisades and Eaton fires and other smaller blazes. Nearly a ...
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has deployed 931 incarcerated firefighters and 114 support staff ...
As of Friday morning, 939 incarcerated firefighters have been working “around the clock cutting fire lines and removing fuel ...
The role of inmate firefighters is in the spotlight as crews continue to battle the blazes in Southern California.
Using inmate labor to fight fires has been a practice in California since the 1940s. Where did it start and what do ...
California’s century-old prisoner firefighter program is drawing fresh criticism as hundreds of incarcerated people have been ...
This story originally published in 2022, but has been updated to reflect the recent fires ravaging neighborhoods across Los ...