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Hundreds of prisoners are helping to battle the wildfires in the Los Angeles area. Incarcerated firefighters earn $26.90 to $34 for each 24-hour shift. It's far below California's minimum wage of ...
Cal Fire pays an additional $1 an hour, regardless of firefighters' skill level. And when crews work a 24-hour shift, followed by a 24-hour period of rest, the lowest-skilled firefighter would ...
As California becomes more primed for disaster, inmates are picking up the pieces—and earning low pay. About 30% to 40% of the state’s forest-fire fighters are incarcerated people, according ...
Aerial view of Sierra Conservation Center, a California prison and one of the major training facilities for incarcerated firefighters Incarcerated firefighters clear a fire line near Santa Barbara, California in December 2017. Today, approximately 3,100 incarcerated people live and work out of 44 camps run by the California Department of ...
While CDCR inmate firefighters earn about $3 to $5 a day depending on skill level (and an extra $1 an hour when actively fighting fires), members of the California Conservation Corps and ...
Peter J. Pitchess Detention Center, also known as Pitchess Detention Center or simply Pitchess, is an all-male county detention center and correctional facility named in honor of Peter J. Pitchess located directly east of exit 173 off Interstate 5 in the unincorporated community of Castaic in Los Angeles County, California.
The inmate workforce performs critical fuel-reduction projects year-round and are at times in the path of fires. California's inmate firefighter crews are dwindling just as the state starts to ...
Roughly 8% of the people in BOP custody are in California. [1] For comparison, the March 2020 California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) population report described 182,579 people under CDCR control. [2] BOP facilities are separate from immigration detention facilities operated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).