Three years ago, L.A. County created an office to oversee a diversion program for homeless inmates. Now there is momentum to expand it, but the details remain a work in progress.
Victor Key, left, case manager for Project 180, with Ellis Pickering, right, who was being released from L.A. County Jail.
Three years ago, L.A. County created Espinoza’s office to oversee just such a diversion program for homeless inmates. Now there is momentum to expand it, but the details remain a work in progress.has secured the release of about 3,000 inmates into housing in community-based settings with medical and psychological support. More than 90% remained housed at least six months.
There is currently no process for screening the hundreds of inmates who enter jail daily, the program’s medical director forensic psychiatrist Kristen Ochoa acknowledged in an earlier interview. Ochoa said the new expanded model of courts serving as hubs “creates a real possibility that 500 beds a year will not be enough.”
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