Since 2020, a remarkable group of community members have walked towards each other to incorporate their experiences in California’s regimes of youth incarceration into the policy effort to establish ‘Youth Justice Reimagined,’ a road-map adopted by LA County to decarcerate juvenile justice. The goal is to contribute to these efforts by supporting the public to understand the decarceration process in LA County and to equip the participants in our program to shape the transition from youth incarceration to community health in a just and equitable manner. We believe that combining the voices of people who the State detained in youth prisons, camps, and halls, with people that the State recruited to work in these facilities, produces deeper knowledge, unique insights, and opportunities to heal from the harms of youth incarceration. These participants have insisted on centering ‘healing justice’ in their efforts to define a Just Transition from youth incarceration to community health. Healing Justice in this context refers to activities that promote truth-seeking and dialogue, relationship-building, and repairing harms and systems. 

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