A man convicted of burglary in Sacramento County was declared dead Wednesday in his prison cell he shared with another inmate ...

"You are undermined constantly at every corner, and the inmates essentially have more rights and more power than you do as correctional officers," Jackson said. CDCR sent a statement about the ...

California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officials are investigating the death of an inmate at North Kern State Prison as a homicide, according to CDCR. Officers were conducting ...

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.

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 Danielle ...

These minimum-security inmates, participants in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) Fire Camp Program, are playing a critical role in slowing the spread of fires in ...

Inmates help firefighters to extinguish the last embers in the hills of Mandeville Canyon after the Palisades Fire burned part of it, on Jan. 13, 2025, in Los Angeles. "CDCR Fire Camp Program ...

While working a wildfire, inmate firefighters are supervised by Cal Fire captains, according to CDCR officials. Members of the inmate fire crews are paid between $5.80 and $10.24 per day ...

Inmates must apply to be a part of the program and “no one is involuntarily assigned to work in a fire camp,” per the CDCR. “Thus, incarcerated people do not face disciplinary action if they ...

An inmate at the lowest experience level in the program would earn $26.90 per day during a 24-hour emergency shift, according to CDCR. Under a 2020 law, non-violent inmate firefighters can ask a ...