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As of Friday, 939 prison inmates have been deployed by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to help contain the blazes, the department confirmed to CBS News.
Nearly 1,000 incarcerated men and women have joined the frontlines in a battle against record-breaking wildfires burning across southern California. The number deployed - now 939 - are part of a ...
Inmate firefighters walk along Highway 120 after a burnout operation during the Rim Fire near Yosemite National Park, California, in 2013. Crews from prison are helping to fight the blazes ...
In 1989 alone, camp inmates worked 5.5 million hours—a $43 million value". [5] Per a CDCR news report, as of 2007 "Approximately 200 crews log an average of more than three million person hours a year fighting wildfires and responding to floods, earthquakes, and search and rescue missions.
The inmates volunteering are paid a daily wage between $5.80 and $10.24, plus an additional $1 per hour when they respond to active fire or fire-related emergencies, the CDCR said
California's Public Safety Realignment initiative, officially known as "Realignment", [1] was a combination of two bills passed by the state of California, with the ultimate goal of reducing its state prison population by shifting much of that population to county jails. It was the result of a court-order in response to shortfalls in medical ...
An expansion of CDCR’s existing “Youth Offender Program” allows qualified inmates under the age of 26 to serve their sentences in a conservation camp alongside trained inmate mentors.
Inmate firefighters dig a containment line as they battle the Palisades Fire on Jan. 10, 2025, in Los Angeles, CA. The Palisades fire had grown to over 22,000 acres and has destroyed thousands of ...