Two inmates from Southern California are suspects in a deadly attack on a third inmate at California State Prison (SAC), ...

Ex-San Francisco 49er Dana Stubblefield will remain in California state prison for now after a judge declined to make a bail ...

After a convicted murderer was moved to a lower-level facility, a prison guard was sexually assaulted and held hostage for ...

A former prison guard was convicted Tuesday of 64 counts of rape, sodomy and sexual battery on 13 female prisoners at ...

State prisoners have long been a part of California's firefighting force. Hundreds of them now are deployed in Los Angeles ...

"Prison labor that is not properly compensated, whether that is rescuing a community from a fire or manufacturing goods in a ...

The number deployed - now 939 - are part of a long-running volunteer programme led by the California Department of ...

More than 1,800 incarcerated firefighters live year-round in minimum-security conservation camps, also known as “fire camps,” ...

As firefighters are battling multiple huge blazes tearing through Los Angeles, California’s prisons have deployed more than 1,000 incarcerated people to battle on the frontlines. The California ...

Sentenced to a life term, Johnson was sent to Pelican Bay, the maximum-security prison in Northern California where all of the state’s alleged prison gang leaders were then being held.

The Conservation (Fire) Camp Program, jointly run by California's corrections and fire departments, trains inmates to fight wildfires and respond to other emergencies. Inmate firefighters earn ...