Participants in the fire camps respond to all types of emergencies such as fires, floods, and other natural or manmade disasters. Inmate Cornelius Draper is a "lead swamper" for the Cuesta ...

More than 1,100 inmates in the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation — a group that has historically made up 30% ...

As wildfires continue to devastate Southern California, thousands of first responders are on the ground, trying to get the destruction under control. About 900 of them are prison inmates.

The inmates' work has involved "cutting fire lines and removing fuel from behind structures to slow fire spread", said the CDCR. California is one of at least 14 states that operates fire camps ...

Inmates who voluntarily sign up for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s Conservation (Fire) Camp Program and work as firefighters currently get paid $5.80 to $10.24 per day, ...