Lacking an available pool of migrant labor, the United Stated has historically turned to another vulnerable ...

As wildfires continue to burn in and around Los Angeles, the fact that many of the firefighters battling the blazes are ...

Bertram notes that the notion that prisons could serve as a self-sustaining economic engine, providing cheap labor for agricultural work, evolved into the system of prison farms that ... German and ...

but this is actually one of the better-paying jobs in prison, and that’s why it’s actually a really sort of coveted job. So, even though it’s this grueling manual labor, and they’re out ...

Trump offers 2 million federal workers eight months' pay if they quit as funding freeze blocked by judge: Live - Government ...

When deployed, those firefighters earn from $5.80 to $10.24 a day, depending on experience, and an extra $1 an hour during active wildfires, according to the corrections department. That means the ...

The Conservation Camp program, as the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation calls it, is an exemplar of prison labor. It allows participants to live outside the prison and earn ...

State voters in November rejected a measure that would have banned forced prison labor. She says it's exploitative ... supports the fire camps but said it's "sad" that it took "a horrible tragedy ...

"CDCR Fire Camp Program firefighters are proud to be ... Seven states have ended forced prison labor: Alabama, Colorado, Nebraska, Oregon, Tennessee, Utah and Vermont. Roughly two-thirds of ...