Featured photojournalist: Jim Lo Scalzo

Inmates line up for work early in the morning at Estrella jail Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA

Alma Madrigal, left, and Jennifer Thomas, right, help Lisa McCorvey roll up her sleeves before a day's work Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA

The workers prepare for several hours of labour cleaning up at Bartlett Lake Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA

Prisoners board a bus to be transported to work Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA

Women are seen in a bus driver's mirror en route to White Tanks cemetery Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA

The chain gang work in 40C heat, hacking at weeds at Bartlett Lake Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA

Workers pull weeds on a highway Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA

Inmates help bury an unclaimed body Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA

The inmates stand beside the coffin before it is lowered into the ground Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA

Kelly DeGrose, along with other inmates, listens to a detention officer lecture Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA

Inmates clean the dust off their boots after a day of working in the desert Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA

Inmates Kelly DeGrose, Mickey Haas and Leann Cracke climb back into their beds Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA

The chain gang walk past inmates in a holding pen Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA

Erica Martinez and Jennifer Thomas climb back into their lockdown cells Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA