The Care First CA Coalition is an alliance of over 20 organizations who seek to replace the carceral system with a system that provides support & care for all.
Joined September 2020
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Care First CA retweeted
Public defenders should not have to choose which constitutional rights to protect and which to neglect. Tomorrow we head into crucial negotiations with LA County and management. We are at a breaking point and we are standing together for our clients & our profession #UnionStrong
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Care First CA retweeted
Mar 10
Thanks to YOU, the Board of Supervisors passed two critical motions towards closing Men’s Central Jail and ending in-custody deaths! ✊🏽🎉 read more at tinyurl.com/march3motions
THE FIGHT IS NOT OVER 📣📣 visit the link in our bio to sign-up for our weekly text message updates!
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Care First CA retweeted
11 Dec 2025
FOUR people have died in the last SIX days in LA Sheriff’s custody. Four families forever changed just before Christmas.
Less than a month ago @LASDHQ were brought to the @LACountyBOS and claimed this crisis would be solved with iPads. It’s time to ACTUALLY close deadly MCJ✊🏾
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Care First CA retweeted
18 Sep 2025
38 deaths in 38 weeks and @LACountyBOS has still not presented a timeline to close the deadly Men’s Central Jail.
The County’s decision to invest in jails is fatal and tragic —and a deliberate choice given the alternatives to incarceration.
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Care First CA retweeted
11 Sep 2025
The jail conditions in LA have gotten so horrifically cruel that Attorney General Bonta has announced a lawsuit against the LA Sheriff's Department and the LA County.
As the lawsuits mount, LASD continues to defund taxpayers and amass record levels of deaths in their custody. 🧵
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Care First CA retweeted
20 Jul 2025
ICE's use of electronic monitoring has rapidly expanded.
Now, more than 200,000 people on any given day are regularly surveilled & detained by ICE – over 4x as many as a decade ago.
ALT Graph showing that ICE now regularly surveils and detains well over 200,000 people on any given day – more than 4x as many as it did in 2015
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Care First CA retweeted
9 Jul 2025
80% of women in jails are mothers, and most of them are primary caretakers of their children.
Mass incarceration has a ripple effect, causing trauma that can last generations within a single family.
ALT Infographic that says: 80% of women in jails are mothers, and most are the primary or sole caretakers of young children. Source: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2023/10/24/ten-statistics/
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3 Jul 2025
@kathrynbarger and @LASDHQ continue to suppress the Civilian Oversight Commission from holding the Sheriff Department accountable for their brutality. Read LA Times article by @@ConnorASheets to learn more. latimes.com/california/story…
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3 Jul 2025
The decision to force out Bonner comes after several
moves by the county and their lawyers to prevent the COC from DOING THEIR JOB & investigating cases of severe brutality and murders by LASD.
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3 Jul 2025
Shame on @kathrynbarger & the COUNTY LAWYERS for their intimidation and removal of two key members of the COC. Tell her that her support of Sheriff violence does NOT go unnoticed! Call her @ 213-974-5555 and visit jlanow.org/CallBarger to see talking points #ProtecttheCOC
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Care First CA retweeted
13 Jun 2025
We stand in unwavering solidarity with immigrant communities and families impacted by the Los Angeles ICE raids. 🧡
cc: @bajitweet @chirla
#Immigration #NoICE #WeKeepUsSafe #LosAngeles #Community
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Care First CA retweeted
13 May 2025
Families of victims killed by LA police are turning grief into action. With LA County paying $104 million in police misconduct settlements in 2023, families organize to push state legislation targeting police interrogations, oversight, and transparency.
lapublicpress.org/2025/05/fa…
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Care First CA retweeted
29 Apr 2025
Join us Wednesday for this free virtual Know Their Rights event and educational training for our community members!
✊🏾 Zoom link: tinyurl.com/AOCkyr
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Care First CA retweeted
16 Apr 2025
Last year, the LA Sheriff’s Department spent $458 MILLION on overtime. That’s more than double what they spent in 2020-2021, and a huge chunk of change – even out of the department’s massive $4 billion budget.
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Care First CA retweeted
9 Apr 2025
🚨 Kern County Jails reported 11 in-custody deaths in 2023 — 6 by suicide, highest ever recorded.
Declining jail populations, rising death toll raises serious questions.
Any accountability? Who's protecting the incarcerated?
#InCustodyDeaths #JusticeReform #EndMassIncarceration
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Care First CA retweeted
4 Apr 2025
🗣️ Moving Pretrial Reform in the Right Direction by Preserving the Presumption of Innocence (PPI) is critical for our communities! The harms of pretrial detention target poor people and people in black and brown communities in California.
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Care First CA retweeted
4 Apr 2025
HOW YOU CAN SHOW UP FOR ABOLITION (in person or virtually)
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Care First CA retweeted
4 Apr 2025
📌Join us TUESDAY at 500 West Temple
🥁Rally at 8:30am
🗣️Board Meeting starts at 9:30
👉🏾In-person Comment after the Men’s Central Jail Closure Presentation
👉🏾Live Phone Comment (if you’re away)
THIS IS THE TIME TO SHOW UP FOR ABOLITION.
🥁RSVP: jlanow.org/april8rally
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Care First CA retweeted
1 Apr 2025
THREE people died in LASD custody this Sunday, March 30th. With 15 deaths so far in 2025, we’re outpacing the last 20 years for deaths in @LASDHQ custody.
@LACountyBOS is currently meeting, but they will once again not be discussing this crisis. LASD is stationed at the door.
1 Apr 2025
The LA jails just posted their 15th in-custody death for this calendar year:
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