Statement to DDA: Voters Support Progressive DA Policies
JUSTICE LA To Deputy District Attorneys: Voters supported progressive changes, don’t stand in the way A coalition of countless families and organizations working to reduce the … Read more
JLA Team
Sheriff Villanueva’s Trumpian tirades are just one reason why his office should be defunded
JusticeLA, along with over 40 local and statewide advocacy groups, demand immediate action from Los Angeles County leadership in response to the threat of COVID-19 in LA County jails.
LA County Must Act Immediately to Prevent COVID-19 Deaths in Jail System
JusticeLA, along with over 40 local and statewide advocacy groups, demand immediate action from Los Angeles County leadership in response to the threat of COVID-19 in LA County jails.
Algorithms Should Not Determine Freedom: MIT Researchers Affirm Community Demands.
Today, MIT researchers sent the LA Board of Supervisors a letter expressing “grave concerns” about risk assessments tools, strongly warning against their use.
Care first.
Today, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors will be voting on a budget that includes moving $120 million dollars toward the construction of 2,400 new jail beds for people with mental health needs. This move runs counter to the Board’s emphatic “care first, jail last” ethos driving the alternatives to incarceration work in the County.
JusticeLA Responds to ODR’s Report on Community Reentry of Jail Mental Health Population
In a move welcomed by the JusticeLA coalition, the Office of Diversion and Reentry (ODR) will be releasing a report detailing how nearly 3,000 prisoners with mental health concerns locked up in LA county jails can be released to community-based mental health resources. Mental health diversion and decentralized, community-based mental health care have long been demands of communities that have opposed new jail construction, and ODR’s newest study affirms that neither a new jail nor an enormous jail-like “mental health treatment center” is necessary or desirable.
JusticeLA Supports Ending the Death Penalty in California
The #JusticeLA Coalition applauds Governor Gavin Newsom’s moratorium on the death penalty and calls for end to Life Without Parole (LWOP) sentences.