Posts by Eve Lyman
LARRP is Participating in the Returning Citizens Stimulus Program
LARRP is Participating in the Returning Citizens Stimulus Program LARRP was fortunate to be included in a new program to get recently released people privately funded stimulus stipends. This excellent new program out of the Center for Employment Opportunities, seeks to support individuals who have been released from incarceration in the past 12 months and…
Read MoreLARRP Members Care for the Most Vulnerable During COVID-19
LARRP Member Organizations Care for the Most Vulnerable During COVID-19 For our May Spotlight we are highlighting 4 LARRP Member Organizations that are working to house and care for the increased amount of people who are being released from jail and prison daily. This is a monumental task that nearly every member of our community…
Read MoreTroy’s End of 2019 Message
As the year, and the decade, come to a close, I reflect on how far we have come. I encourage us all to keep the momentum going for the criminal justice reform successes we have collectively secured across our nation. LA County, our home, our place of service, the defacto 7th largest state, and home…
Read MoreBail Out
When we say we want due process afforded to us we’re not asking you to bail us out of our responsibility to face the charges against us as you might say. We’re asking not to be locked up in a cage simply because we can’t afford the bail like some others can, even if they…
Read MoreLARRP Receives Two Awards from the California Community Reinvestment Grant (CalCRG)
“The California Community Reinvestment Grants program moves our community in the right direction, by helping us to begin addressing the biggest challenges in our communities ourselves. When we infuse resources into marginalized communities, we empower them to inspire, build and lift themselves up; because those that are most impacted by the system, are also those…
Read MoreWalls
Poetic Justice Series A New Series by LARRP Executive Director TROY VAUGHN WALLS Why do we create walls? To protect us or reject them? To keep people out or to help people stay in? Are walls always seen, or can they be invisible to the eye; and we don’t know where they end or even…
Read MoreLARRP’s Legislative Reentry Lobby Day with the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
On Wednesday, August 14, 2019, LARRP Policy Coordinator Joseph Petitt traveled to Sacramento to participate in the 2019 Ella Baker Center for Human Rights Lobby Day! The day started with meeting at the Sacramento SEIU Office Center, which was kicked off with a welcome from Zachary Norris of the Ella Baker Center and Public Safety…
Read MoreLARRP July Spotlight This month LARRP spotlights new member, the Harriett Buhai Center for Family Law, and their work with system impacted women, where they provide free individual legal advice, counselling and representation for women in custody and other family matters. Motivated by the unmet needs of incarcerated women, the fastest growing jailed population, the…
Read MoreDid you feel it?, Reentry got shaken up! It was an inspiring day! On May 30th, 2019, nearly 1000 Los Angeles County reentry stakeholders gathered in Montebello, CA for the first ever regional reentry convening, hosted by the LA County Probation Department and supported by LARRP. The “Shaking Up Reentry” conference represented a launching point…
Read MoreLARRP’s March General Meeting LARRP’s March General Meeting was rocking and packed! It kicked off with a moving personal impact story by Riley Gude, brother of LARRP co-founder Lynne Lyman. Riley is a participant in the CSH Speak Up! Program, and this was his first time sharing his story publicly. Riley…
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