Over 1,000 prison inmates risking their lives fighting LA wildfires - for just 91p an hour
Fire crews are being lent a unique hand in trying to slow the blazes tearing through Los Angeles - California's Inmate population.
Among those fighting the Los Angeles wildfires: Prison inmates earning less than minimum wage
Hundreds of incarcerated firefighters are working to extinguish the massive blaze scorching Los Angeles. Here's how much they earn.
Inmates are fighting California wildfires: When did it start, how much do they get paid?
Using inmate labor to fight fires has been a practice in California since the 1940s. Where did it start and what do participants actually do and get paid?
California relying on prisoners, Mexico to provide firefighters to battle Los Angeles wildfires
California has deployed firefighters from Mexico as well as nearly 1,000 prison inmates to help combat deadly wildfires that have exploded across Los Angeles since last week.
Hundreds of California prison inmates fight wildfires - and stigma
Critics say using incarcerated men and women to fight fires is cheap labour, but supporters say it is rehabilitative.
California Prison Crews Are Helping Fight the Los Angeles Fires
More than 1,800 incarcerated firefighters live year-round in minimum-security conservation camps, also known as “fire camps,” located across 25 counties in California, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation;
Killer mom Susan Smith heard in prison call making vow amid plot to profit from her crimes
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Ex-state prison guard convicted of sexually assaulting nine female inmates in Chowchilla
A former prison guard was convicted Tuesday of 64 counts of rape, sodomy and sexual battery on nine female prisoners at ...
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Advocates for female inmates demand prison officials keep male sexual offenders from coming back
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Warning drones could lift inmates out of jails to escape after Lancashire prison described as 'airport'
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Prison nurse helped inmates run phone-smuggling racket
A prison nurse who helped inmates carry out a phone-smuggling racket has kept her freedom. Kimberly Finn, from Boldon, was an ...
Man convicted of shipping drug-filled books to inmates will join them in prison, feds say
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Prison considered charging inmates who burned themselves in protest for 'intolerable' conditions
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Why are more people dying in Missouri prisons? Advocates for inmates demand accountability
Deaths in Missouri prisons have increased in number despite a drop in the number of people incarcerated. The Missouri ...
Family of Robert Brooks, inmate who died after beating by prison guards, files wrongful death suit
The family of an inmate who died after corrections officers violently beat him last month in a Central New York prison has filed a lawsuit claiming state officials oversee a “dangerously broken” ...