Officials say Mario Campbell, 36, was taken to a nearby hospital outside the prison, where he later fell to his injuries.

As wildfires continue to burn in and around Los Angeles, the fact that many of the firefighters battling the blazes are ...

according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. They join thousands of firefighting and emergency personnel who have been dispatched to respond to multiple fires throughout ...

"It's really important that people remember they are people just like us and are doing a very important and dangerous job." ...

The role of inmate firefighters is in the spotlight as crews continue to battle the blazes in Southern California.

Incarcerated fire crew members earn as little as $5.80 per day, but a bill recently introduced by California Assemblymember Isaac Bryan could change that by giving them a pay raise.

Nearly 950 inmates are removing timber and brush in an attempt to slow the spread of the wildfires in the Los Angeles area, ...

Using inmate labor to fight fires has been a practice in California since the 1940s. Where did it start and what do ...

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has deployed 931 incarcerated firefighters and 114 support staff through its Fire Camp Program.

The number deployed - now 939 - are part of a long-running volunteer programme led by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR). Their numbers have steadily increased since ...

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 ...

While extoling a recent California law that strengthens ... What Johnson asked supervisors to do is consider building a corrections and rehabilitation campus to house an expanded alternative ...