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Address:
450 Bauchet Street
2nd FL. R273
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Business Phone:
(213) 473-6594
Public
Information:
(213) 473-6590
Specific
Information:
(888) 288-9909
Toll free line is for Community Transition Unit's released
clients who may be in need of further case management services
or to provide information pertaining to their post release
status.
Parking
information:
Call for arrangements
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The
mission of the Community Transition Unit is to increase inmate
participation in educational, vocational, and other life-skills
training programs, and to assist with their successful reintegration
into the community. This shall be accomplished by establishing
partnerships between correctional staff, and with both public
and private community based organizations and programs.
The
unit was developed in 2001 and was tasked with finding effective
means of breaking the cycle of recidivism which is all to
often seen in the Los Angeles County Jail system. Incorporating
Sheriff Baca's beliefs along and his vision for the more humane
treatment of incarcerated persons, the CTU was developed to
specifically address the issues of how to bridge the gap from
incarceration to the successful reintegration, of men and
women, into our community. The CTU has taken a leading role
in making major philosophical changes in the Los Angeles Sheriff's
Department's jail operations and, also, in the implementation
of Jail Team Policing (JTP), which is best described as Community
Oriented Policing (COP) for the jails.
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