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

I served California as a firefighter. I responded to car accidents, medical emergencies, and wildfires. I was deployed to the ...

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 ...

As firefighters are battling multiple huge blazes tearing through Los Angeles, California’s prisons have deployed more than 1,000 incarcerated people to battle on the frontlines. The California ...

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Anthony Pedro spent nine years in prison, and three of those years as a firefighter. When he got out, he got dropped off at the local fire department. “Because I didn’t have transportation ...

AB 469 seeks to close loopholes and strengthen sentences for looting and fake first responders in disaster zones.

[Related: California voters to decide on criminal ... of good behavior,” enabling them to pursue employment as firefighters after prison. However, she said the process still requires the ...

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

The Marshall Project spotlights some of the incarcerated firefighters doing one of the riskiest, lowest-paying, but ...

The army of firefighters battling the massive Southern California wildfires includes workers who could otherwise remain safely behind bars. As of Friday, 939 prison inmates have been deployed by ...