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 ...

Hector Amezcua [email protected] California has long used inmate fire crews to help fight the state’s devastating wildfires. Inmates who participate can earn credits toward early release ...

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

California and Nevada voters are weighing whether to repeal legal loopholes in their state constitutions that allow slavery ...

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

But that’s not at all! Fire Country already has one announced spin off starring Morena Baccarin and possibly another with Jared Padalecki, who is making his debut in season 3 of the original series ...

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 ...

“So their lives didn’t go in vain.” California has long used inmate fire crewsto help fight the state’s devastating wildfires. Inmates who participate can earn credits toward early ...

(AP) — California and Nevada voters will decide ... In 2016, Darrell White, an injured prison firefighter who filed a claim under the modified program, learned he would receive a monthly ...