State prisoners have long been a part of California's firefighting force. Hundreds of them now are deployed in Los Angeles County.

This is not a new practice. California has relied on incarcerated firefighters since 1915. And prison labor has been used to ...

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A Jamaican transplant to Jackson, Wyoming, was sentenced to 80 months in prison Thursday for running a large-scale cocaine ...

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) deployed 783 prison inmates, according to figures revealed ...

The army of firefighters battling the massive Southern California wildfires includes workers who could otherwise remain safely behind bars.

Among the thousands of boots on the ground battling the wildfires in Los Angeles are hundreds of incarcerated individuals — a ...

Hundreds of California prison inmates are helping firefighters battle the out-of-control flames that have engulfed parts of ...

Nearly 400 inmates are among the 14,000 emergency responders working on the wildfires that have destroyed at least 2,000 ...

Hundreds of incarcerated people are among the first responders battling the devastating flames, the Washington Post reports.

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As much as 30% of the firefighters force in California may be prison inmates, according to reports. How did we get here? And ...