Upcoming Events
LARRP Committee Meetings
May General Meeting
June 16, 2022
10am - 11:30am
Housing Committee Meeting
July 21, 2022
1:30 PM
Education Committee:
Integrated Health:
June 6, 2022
2:00 pm
Employment Committee
July 20th, 2022
2:00 PM
With a special presentation from
The National Employment Law Project
Partner Events
Upcoming Meetings of the Probation Oversight Commission
- Thursday, May 26, 2022 from 12:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. (Commission Meeting)
Opioid Reversal (NARCAN) trainings
Each training is around an hour, with time to stay on for q&a. Please use link to register. As always, Narcan training will provide box (two doses) for anyone who completes training. (sent via mail)
- Monday May 23rd, 9:30 am: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAvd-6urj0sHNTv4vT0eUgY9PZ_6MnmhWE7
- Friday June 10th, 9:30am: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwudeihqz8oEtyVfAXr3hBrxWYgQ5ZfwB5I
- Tuesday June 28th, 10am: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUpf-yrqzsjEtZ_Y4Jcr1L09lbG8Hdf8Mq3
A Series of Town Hall Discussions With District Attorney George Gascón
The next topic in the series will be “Violent Crime”
June 8, 2022, at 6:00 p.m.
Rio Hondo Career, Resource Fair and Hiring Event for the Justice Involved
sponsored by by Rio Hondo America's Job Center, Rio Hondo College
Sat, June 11, 2022
11:00 AM – 2:00 PM PDT
Justice on Trial Film Festival
SAVE THE DATE
Saturday, October 29th & Sunday, October 30th
The Justice on Trial Film Festival highlights justice-impacted people by exposing the injustices of incarceration and exploring solutions through films and panel discussions.
The Justice on Trial Film Festival will be held at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California.
ATI - Upcoming Meetings
CFCI Meetings
Alternative Crisis Response (ACR) Public Convening
D.O.O.R.S (Developing Opportunities And Offering Reentry Solutions)
Community Reentry Center Orientations
Mondays 9 AM-10 AM IN PERSON!
3965 Vermont Ave. Los Angeles, Ca 90037 1St Floor, Room 136
THURSDAYS 2 PM-3 PM VIA ZOOM
MEETING ID: 836-3062-3920 (No Password Required) CALL-IN NUMBER: 1-669-900-9128
LA Coalition for DA Justice and Accountability Meeting
Fourth Thursdays of the month,
4-6 PM
Court Relief for Criminal Records
Last Tuesday of Each Month
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Online with Skype
Did you know that applying for court relief may reduce the barriers of a criminal conviction and make it easier to obtain a job? Attendees of this Webinar will find out how Reductions of Charges, Expungements, and Certificates of Rehabilitation may increase their opportunities for employment and job licensing. They will learn the criteria to qualify, how to apply if eligible, and be provided resources in their community that can be helpful in their rehabilitative journey. In addition, a lawyer from the Inland Empire Latino Lawyers Association will be present to answer questions and provide information on the free legal services they offer for eligible individuals. Offered on February 23rd. Registration required.
Legal Clinics hosted by the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles (LAFLA) and the D.O.O.R.S team
- Expungement and Early Termination of Probation Workshop: Every 1st Wednesday of the Month at 1:00pm (More Info)
- Citations/Tickers Workshop: Every 2nd Wednesday of the Month at 10:00am (More Info)
- Fair Chance Hiring Workshop: Every 4th Wednesday of the Month at 1:00pm (More Info)
The legal clinics are open to existing/active D.O.O.R.S clients as well as any person who have been system impacted and are looking to connect to legal services at the reentry center. Please note if a client is on active probation, their DPO will be required to submit a RUU referral on their behalf in order to activate legal services. DPO’s are encouraged to submit the appropriate RUU referral concurrently with recommending attendance to the legal clinics.
Questions: Call D.O.O.R.S Center reception desk at 323-730-4442
Please note: LARRP General Meetings and other events are open to the public. By attending, you consent to having your voice and likeness recorded, photographed, posted on LARRP's website and social media, and included in LARRP's materials and publications for noncommercial purposes. If you don't want to be photographed or recorded, please let the facilitator know so you can be seated accordingly.
Get Involved!
LARRP is Hiring Again!
We are looking for a System Navigator
We would like to fill the position by June 1st, 2022
For a complete listing of all the opportunities and information
CLICK HERE
Participate In The CFCICommunity Survey
The Los Angeles County Care First and Community Investment (CFCI) initiative is sponsoring a community survey to get input from the community on a range of criminal justice issues to provide guidance to the CFCI Advisory Committee on their funding recommendations for year two spending. Your voice is critical in this effort. Please take a few minutes to answer this brief SURVEY!
Emergent Works - 1:1 Virtual Mentorship Program Applications are OPEN!
Starting May 23rd, 2022
We connect formerly incarcerated & justice-involved individuals with professional software engineers to build digital literacy skills and learn how to code. We hope to interrupt the prison cycle by creating pathways into high-paying jobs in technology for formerly incarcerated people. E.W is a safe learning space where you study HTML, CSS, and JavaScript via a 1-on-1 mentorship model with a dedicated mentor and community resources to support your journey.
Prospective mentees/mentors will embark on a 16-week learning journey exploring Digital Literacy practices, building passion projects, and creating a working relationship with HTML, CSS & JavaScript, and, if interested, our Data & Product Design pilot programs. If you know anyone interested in joining this cohort, please have them submit their applications HERE
CalAIM Guide for Justice-involved
The California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM) Program is the state’s new plan for re-envisioning and reforming the Medi-Cal program that provides health and behavioral health services for nearly one in three Californians. CalAIM offers a unique and unprecedented opportunity to improve the quality of medical and behavioral health care for the most medically vulnerable and complex populations through a broad array of policy changes intended to align and improve services.
n January 1, 2023, justice-involved individuals who are released from custody and who experience homelessness, serious mental illness (SMI), substance use disorders (SUD), or medical co-morbidities will be for these services. Medi-Cal managed care plans (MCPs) will receive funding through DHCS and will be
responsible for administering key elements of the CalAIM program.
This policy implementation guide provides an overview of CalAIM’s key program elements relevant to justice involved individuals and an initial implementation framework. The guide is intended as a resource for justice system agencies, MCPs, providers, advocates, and other stakeholders who are key to designing and
implementing this new program in their county and community to serve justice-involved individuals
Participate In The CFCI Community Survey
The Los Angeles County Care First and Community Investment (CFCI) initiative is sponsoring a community survey to get input from the community on a range of criminal justice issues to provide guidance to the CFCI Advisory Committee on their funding recommendations for year two spending. Your voice is critical in this effort. Please take a few minutes to answer this brief SURVEY!
Survey With Compensation Formerly Incarcerated People
For the Criminal Justice Lab at the University of Oregon
If interested: interested: call/ text Arriell Jackson at (541) 525- 0624 or Email: blackatistudy@gmail.com
Rising Entrepreneurs Shark Tank, a collaboration between Ronnie's House and Cal State Long Beach's Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
Sign Up
T.D.D. Supportive Living Inc.
T.D.D. Supportive Living Inc. provides structured, safe, and healthy housing for the community. They opened a new interim housing site with 29 available beds in the Los Angeles area.
Record Clearance Research
A research team at Santa Clara University, San Jose State, and Rutgers is studying the effects of automated vs. petition-based record clearance on individuals, their families, and communities. They are looking to interview people who had cannabis convictions in California before 2019 and received or are eligible for expungement or reduction of one or more convictions.
Participants will be compensated $40 per 45- to 60-minute interview.
CLICK for more information
Durham University Survey
Recently released prisoners are encouraged to take part in the survey provided below. This survey will contribute to my research into prison rehabilitation and how an individual's experience in prison may affect their ability to re-integrate themselves back into society, following release.
All those who participate will be entered into a $35 raffle
Free Training Opportunities in the homeless services sector
Homeless Healthcare Los Angeles
Cohort 80 launching April 4th!
Register now for the next cohort! Modules are once a week for nine consecutive weeks. Please review dates carefully before registering.
- Module 01 (The Landscape of Homelessness in Los Angeles)
4/4/2022 - Module 02 & 03 (Homeless Services Case Management Core Functions - Part 1 & Part 2)
4/13/2022 - Module 04 (Cultural Competency & Ethics)
4/18/2022 - Module 05 (Effective Practices - Part 1)
4/27/2022 - Module 06 (Effective Practices - Part 2)
5/2/2022 - Module 07 (Housing)
5/11/2022 - Module 08 (Mainstream Benefits & System Navigation)
5/16/2022 - Module 09 (Health: Medical, Mental Health, & Substance use)
5/25/2022 - Module 10 (Thriving in Community)
6/1/2022
CHECK HERE FOR FULL COURSE CATALOGUE
News
For an archive of reentry and criminal justice related news, please see our News Archive which goes back years!
Op-Ed: The mentally ill defendants in my courtroom need treatment, not jail
LA Times, By Terry Lee Smerling, May 20, 2022
...easily one-third of all criminal defendants who come through my courtroom and other courtrooms across the county — thousands of people a year — are identified by defense counsel and assessed by Department of Mental Health personnel as having a mental illness. Prolonged incarceration for people with mental illnesses worsens outcomes and, yes, is more costly and less effective than community treatment.
Yet the county has grossly underfunded the critical community treatment options that judges, prosecutors and defense attorneys want to use and which we know work.
Everyone has an idea for solving homelessness. What if we listened to the unhoused?
LA Times, By Theo Henderson, Ananya Roy, May 9, 2022 8:44 AM PT
“It’s a war on the poor,” Theo Henderson often likes to note. And indeed, it is, in the liberal city of Los Angeles, where homelessness is the leading public issue of concern. While politicians expand the criminalization of homelessness and promise to “end encampments,” thousands of Angelenos are consigned to living and dying on the streets, and thousands more are on the edge of eviction. Rarely, though, do unhoused voices and experiences shape the city’s public discourse and policies about homelessness.
Fed Gov’t Is Investing $145 Million in Re-Entry Programs for Formerly Incarcerated People
California Black Media by Aldon Thomas Stiles, May 13, 2022
Funding dries up for program aimed at LA’s ‘sickest of the sick
KCRW, Hosted by Steve Chiotakis, May 09, 2022
There is a pathway for people suffering from mental health issues to get out of the jail population and into supportive housing. It’s through a 2015 program called ODR Housing from the Office of Diversion and Reentry.
Nearly 4,000 people have been diverted from jail and into the program, which offers housing, nurses, psychiatrists, and case managers.
ODR currently has 2,200 beds, which are occupied, but LA County has not provided funding for the program to expand. So ODR Housing has not been able to accept a new client in over a year.
El Camino College formerly incarcerated student program gets $160,000 grant
Daily Breeze, by Kristy Hutchings, May 9, 2022
El Camino is one of 59 colleges in the state to secure a Rising Scholars Network grant designed to support students who have been impacted by the criminal justice system.
Social Housing Report Outlines Path to Affordable Housing for All
Non Profit News/Nonprofit Quarterly, Steve Dubb, May 4, 2022
Gascón supporters, foes exchange barbs
The Signal of Santa Clarita Valley, May 3, 2022, by Caleb Lunetta
Quoted in the article:
From LARRP Partner Susan Burton: “I have worked with George Gascón to create better victim services to create better policies to not criminalize addiction and mental health and to just transform our criminal justice system,” said Burton. “I believe, along with all of you, that there’s a lot of work ahead of us. And I believe in George Gascón heading that work.”
From LARRP Co-founder and Steering Committee Member Lynne Lyman: “I’ve seen all these scare tactics before when the Drug Policy Alliance won treatment instead of incarceration at the ballot in 2001 or when we legalized cannabis in 2016,” said Lynne Lyman, a justice advocate working in L.A. County. “We heard the same: The sky is falling, the fear-mongering about drug addict criminals getting into our communities.”
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How Sacramento’s mass shooting killed the myth of ‘tough-on-crime’ prosecutors
The Philadelphia Enquirer, by Will Bunch, Apr 7, 2022
A mass killing on the turf of an outspoken "tough-on-crime" DA shatters the myth that progressive prosecutors are the cause of rising homicides.
Critics of plan to relocate youths from L.A. juvenile hall increasingly vocal before May 1 move
LA Times, By Libor Jany, April 30
The American women and children we all conveniently forget
KCRW, Hosted by Robert Scheer Apr. 29, 2022
Interview with Jorja Leap
On this week’s “Scheer Intelligence,” Leap joins fellow Angeleno Robert Scheer to discuss California’s female prison population and the scholar’s must-read new book, “Entry Lessons: The Stories of Women Fighting for Their Place, Their Children, and Their Futures After Incarceration,”. Focusing not just on what happens in jails and prisons but what occurs upon reentry, Leap reports with a keenly humanitarian perspective on how these women’s trials and tribulations can often be as difficult if not more so once they’re free.
Justice Highlights Within LA County’s First Proposed 2022-23 Budget
Witness LA, April 27, 2022, by Taylor Walker
California inmate overdoses plummet under drug program
By Don Thompson Associated Press, April 26, 2022
The nation's largest medication-assisted treatment program for addicted prison inmates has reduced a surge in drug overdose deaths and hospitalizations plaguing California’s prison system
The Homelessness Crisis: A Monster of Our Own Making
The Medium, April 25, 2022, By Heidi Marston
Heidi Marston resigned today and submitted this powerful piece about this situation. Some of the quotes:
- But in 2020, 205 people in Los Angeles County found housing that resolved their homelessness every day — while at the same time, 225 people fell into homelessness on the same day.
- Amongst our lowest-compensated employees, 91% are people of color. Many have lived experience of homelessness, and some have been recipients of services that LAHSA and our non-profit partners administer. The employees of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority should not make so little that they qualify for homeless services themselves.
Biden grants his first pardons to a former Secret Service agent, two others
Associated Press, By Aamer Madhani, April 26, 2022
The president also commuted the sentences of 75 others for nonviolent, drug-related convictions. The White House announced the clemencies Tuesday as it launched a series of job training and reentry programs for those in prison or recently released.
The Superpredator Myth Did a Lot of Damage. Courts Are Beginning to See the Light.
NYTimes Guest Essay, By James Forman Jr. and Kayla Vinson, April 20, 2022
...Revisiting lengthy sentences, especially for people who committed acts of violence, has always been considered one of the third rails of criminal justice reform. But two recent developments in Connecticut — one from the State Supreme Court, the other from the Board of Pardons and Paroles — offer important examples of state officials overcoming this reluctance.
Exclusive: HUD unveils plan to help people with a criminal record find a place to live
USA TODAY by Romina Ruiz-Goiriena, April 12, 2022
Key Points
- HUD is making it easier for Americans with a criminal record to find housing.
- In six months, HUD will produce new guidelines and model documents, such as leases.
- The move would impact all federally funded housing programs, including public housing authorities and rental assistance voucher programs.
Editorial: Release California from the prison of over-incarceration
By The Times Editorial Board, April 13, 2022
Coalition Pushes California To Provide Funding For Crime Prevention, Prisoner Re-Entry Programs
CBS13 SACRAMENTO, By Rachel Wulff, April 6, 2022
Tinisch Hollins lost a family member to gun violence. It’s one of the reasons why she is working with Californians For Safety and Justice. “We want to set state’s priorities,” Hollins said.
Her organization was one of a dozen that sent a letter to California Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state Legislature asking for $3 billion in funding. The money would also be used to help try to prevent recidivism. Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg says the failure to re-enter people effectively after jail is a public safety issue.
Bills Aim To Open Doors To Housing And Employment For Formerly Incarcerated Californians
WitnessLA, April 5, 2022 by Taylor Walker
CA Police Data Shows ‘Tough-on-Crime’ Counties Experience Higher Crime
The Crime Report,By Andrea Cipriano, April 4, 2022
California has been in the spotlight in recent weeks for its battle handling crime spikes, and most recently their Sacramento battle recovering from a devastating mass shooting.
With that, a debate regarding policing strategy rages on — and new police data shows California counties with tough-on-crime policies actually have a greater crime increase compared to counties with progressive policies, Davis Vanguard reports.