There are 1,015 inmates currently fighting the Los Angeles wildfires, working up to 24 hours at a time clearing debris, ...
Amid the ongoing wildfires in Los Angeles, with the National Weather Service issuing a new “extremely critical fire weather” ...
Twitch star Hasan was left stunned after Kim Kardashian reposted his interview with incarcerated firefighters on Instagram.
California's prisoner firefighter program is under renewed criticism as over 700 incarcerated individuals fight deadly ...
Inmate firefighters responding to the ongoing Los Angeles fires and working 24-hour shifts are earning $26.90 per day, according to the California Dept. of Corrections.
Kardashian called incarcerated firefighters "heroes" as she asked Gov. Gavin Newsom to lift wages for those "risking their ...
As a destructive wildfire rages in California, the spotlight is on prison labor, with more than 700 incarcerated individuals ...
Using inmate labor to fight fires has been a practice in California since the 1940s. Even some youth offenders from the Lode ...
Eddie Herrera, a formerly incarcerated firefighter, talks about the job and how he sees what’s happening in Los Angeles.
The role of inmate firefighters is in the spotlight as crews continue to battle the blazes in Southern California.
Meanwhile, private crews are being paid as much as $2,000 an hour to protect residences and businesses in Los Angeles County.