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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The facility offers educational, vocational, volunteer, mental health, and self-help programming. [6] Incarcerated individuals at Correctional Training Facility help train service dogs [7] and have organized fundraising efforts to give back to their communities. [8]
PHOTO: Firefighters operate as smoke and flames rise from the Sunset Fire in the hills overlooking the Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, on Jan. 8, 2025. (David Swanson/Reuters)