While mentoring a juvenile in a detention center who was facing a 25- to 50-year prison sentence, a loud bang echoed from across the room. Another participant in the program had become extremely angry ...

The Colorado Department of Corrections has partnered with Recidiviz to launch the Opportunities app, a digital tool designed to help incarcerated individuals successfully reenter society and reduce ...

Hundreds of prisoners are battling the devastating Los Angeles wildfires through a longstanding program with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR). Two major wildfires, as ...

PASADENA, Calif. (KABC) -- Hundreds of the firefighters working tirelessly on the fire lines to protect lives and property in Southern California are actually serving time in prison. As two historic ...

The Women’s Justice Institute on Thursday announced the launch of a new women-focused Community Reentry Support Center, ...

As 2025 began, Los Angeles was ravaged by historic fires. Residents were forced to rely on firefighters to bravely confront walls of flames that threatened their homes and lives. Among the crews that ...

When a wildfire approaches a prison and an evacuation warning is issued, what are the health risks that incarcerated people ...

Benard McKinley will attend Northwestern Law School in the fall Benard McKinley is going to one of the most prestigious law schools in the United States, just four months after he became a free man.

12:53 p.m. Sept. 17, 2025: An earlier version of this story said that Assembly Bill 218 would require prison officials to draft rules by 2027 to recommend incarcerated firefighters for resentencing.