california
How California’s Inmate Firefighter Program Exploits Its Heroes
While incarcerated, they save lives. Once freed, they’re blocked from continuing their career — all but insuring they fail on the outside. As the prison system profits, Golden State prisoners are thrust into a literal trial by fire.
We Still Don’t Know How to Talk About Wildfires
The burning of the American West defies our powers of description
As COVID Deaths Mount, Prison Wives Are Fighting to Save the Men They Love
With the penal system as callous as ever and coronavirus ravaging California prisons, they fear they’re the only thing standing between life and death for their husbands
The Man Who Beat Back the California Wildfires with Nothing But a Case of Bud Light
And he's just the latest in a foamy, smoky history of men fighting fire with beer
