The first time Amika Mota witnessed a sexual assault by a corrections officer, it was happening to her 18-year-old bunkmate, ...

Amika Mota was a firefighter in California's Chowchilla prison before her release in 2015. She said fighting wildfires was not the bulk of their duties, which also included putting out structure ...

Convicted of vehicular manslaughter more than 15 years ago, Amika Mota understood she would be separated from her three children as their primary caregiver. But the rampant abuse she said she ...

Amika Mota was drenched, bone-tired, and shaking after her first-ever pump and roll, a fire-fighting technique where the fire truck creeps toward the blaze as personnel wield the massive hose ...

Anna Sussman's new podcast "Fire Escape" follows the story of one woman, Amika Mota, who learned to fight fires while serving a seven-year sentence for vehicular manslaughter. We talked with ...

“We are relieved that the truth is finally coming to light and that the staff responsible for sexual assault are being held accountable,” Amika Mota, one of the executive founders of Sister ...

According to Amika Mota, who worked as a firefighter in California's Chowchilla prison before her release in 2015, during major fires prisoners do a lot of preventive and protective work ...