One of the critical jobs that prisoners can be required to work is fighting wildfires. While salaried firefighters in ...

California voters have rejected a measure amending the state Constitution to ban forced labor in any form. The constitution ...

California Proposition 6 would amend the state constitution to remove a provision allowing jails and prisons to impose ...

Prisoners in California will still be forced to fight wildfires and make furniture for minimal pay, as voters appear to have rejected Proposition 6.

Multiple fire crews responded to a two-alarm vegetation fire Thursday afternoon near the Lompoc federal prisons with ...

but it’s still a fraction of what a non-incarcerated California firefighter makes. California prisoners face punishments if they do not carry out their work, something Proposition 6 would have ...

Vice President Kamala Harris’ home state of California is on track to reject a ballot measure that would ban forced labor in state prisons. Proposition 6 was an effort to ban slavery by creating ...

Prison labor would still exist in ... for basic labor to $10.24 per day for those who work as firefighters. A companion bill in the California Assembly would allow the CDCR to set wages for ...

Photos and videos of the Mountain Fire show hills ablaze and encircled in smoke, as firefighters try to extinguish the flames and keep it from spreading.