The return of workers signals a possible end to a job walkout that began Feb. 17 and had paralyzed the operations of dozens ...

The bill, as it currently stands, would require incarcerated individual hand crew members from county jails to be paid an ...

President Trump is vowing to “lead the charge” to unseat Republican Rep. Thomas Massie (Ky.), who has said he will not support the GOP’s short-term government funding bill ahead of Friday’s shutdown ...

Formerly incarcerated firefighters stood alongside advocates of Assembly Bill 247 on Tuesday, advocating for an increase in the hourly pay rates for inmate hand crews. “I felt like it was a great way ...

Inmate firefighters housed in California's county jails and state prisons would earn an hourly wage of up to $19 under ...

A proposal took an early step in the California Assembly Public Safety Committee that would require incarcerated firefighters ...

A Whanganui Prison staff member was reportedly assaulted by an inmate who started a fire in his cell by setting a mattress ...

Two fire engines were sent to HMP Stoke Heath on Sunday following a call reporting a fire in one of the cells. Crews from ...

More than 1,100 inmates in the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation — a group that has historically made up 30% of the California wildfire force — helped battle the Palisades and Eaton ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- California lawmakers are considering giving a raise to inmate firefighters under new legislation. Assembly Bill 247 aims to raise the hourly wage of inmates to $19 when they are ...

A proposed California bill could increase pay for inmate firefighters housed in county jails and state prisons. Assembly Bill 247, if approved, would require jail inmates assigned to work active ...

Curtis Alan Anderson Jr., 25 of Mason City, pleaded guilty to second-degree arson. He’s now been ordered to spend up to 10 ...