Los Angeles County and FUSE are working together to implement a transformative decarceration strategy that replaces incarceration with coordinated, community-based care. FUSE Executive Fellow Arthur Bray-Simons will engage a wide range of stakeholders, including health departments, justice agencies, and community partners, with a focus on justice-affected BIPOC individuals, LGBTQ+ people, and women. Through landscape analysis and best-practice research, Bray-Simons will help design a comprehensive implementation plan that aligns jail closure efforts with expanded behavioral health and social service capacity.
Bray-Simons will manage a core component of the jail closure strategy, including designing a behavioral health care system, identifying service gaps, and coordinating cross-sector investments. This work will include analyzing funding streams, aligning policies, and supporting pilot initiatives that reduce reliance on incarceration. By building consensus and operationalizing a data-driven implementation plan, the project will enable Los Angeles County to safely reduce jail populations while expanding access to care and opportunity.