The Rwanda-backed group known as M23 is believed to have been responsible for the incident following its takeover of the city ...

A cell inside the Eastern Correctional Institution in Westover caught fire Monday afternoon, according to the Maryland Office ...

More than a thousand incarcerated firefighters helped beat back the LA blazes. This is what you should know about their work.

Incarcerated firefighters can have years of experience by the time they're released. But getting a job in the field is still difficult.

As of Friday morning, 939 incarcerated firefighters have been working “around the clock cutting fire lines and removing fuel behind structures to slow fire spread,” CDCR told TIME in an emailed ...

SAN DIEGO COUNTY, Calif. — Firefighters have recently battled blazes across southern California. Incarcerated firefighters ...

Travis Barker is showing his appreciation for incarcerated individuals acting as firefighters amid the L.A. Fires ravaging ...

The Los Angeles-based Anti-Recidivism Coalition, a nonprofit dedicated to ending mass incarceration, started a fundraiser on Friday to support the fire crews of California’s prisons.

Roughly 30 percent of firefighters battling the California wildfires are incarcerated, earning time off their sentences and up to $26.90 per day.

Incarcerated firefighters have historically made up around a third of California’s firefighting force. They’re a much smaller percentage of those on the ground in Los Angeles right now.

Incarcerated firefighters battling Southern California wildfires have been moved by the outpouring of support from the public ...