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

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and California Correctional Health Care Services, in partnership with the California Department of Human Resources, announce the State ...

By Alexis Alvarez, Feb. 4, 2025 The voluntary and selective Conservation (Fire) Camp program, which sent out more than 1,000 prisoners to the frontlines of the Eaton and Pacific Palisades fires, often ...

In September 2020, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law that makes it easier for formerly incarcerated firefighters who successfully participated in the fire camp program to seek jobs as ...

Jackson said Ransom was able to learn officers' routines with his job in the laundry area ... you do as correctional officers," Jackson said. CDCR sent a statement about the lawsuit.