[1] The JusticeLA coalition includes dozens of national and local organizations including Color of Change, Critical Resistance Los Angeles, Youth Justice Coalition, American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, Black Lives Matter: Los Angeles, Center for Popular Democracy, Code Pink, Drug Policy Alliance, Liberty Tree Foundation for the Democratic Revolution, Service Employees International Union, and United Way of Greater Los Angeles, among others.

[5] The women's jail was planned to be relocated to a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility, which is located eighty miles outside of Los Angeles.

For over two years, JusticeLA organized protests, public education campaigns and provided policy recommendations to stop jail expansion in L.A.

[2] JusticeLA also presented a brief to the Board in 2017 entitled "Reclaim, Reimagine and Reinvest: An Analysis of Los Angeles County’s Criminalization Budget.

[21][22] The budget would have reallocated funding from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department toward alternatives to incarceration, such as supportive housing and mental health services.

[20] JusticeLA has advocated for the County to expand its efforts to divert people with mental illness, which would aid a reduction of the jail population and the closure of MCJ.

[2] In 2020, several celebrities collaborated with JusticeLA to create a public service announcement #SuingToSaveLives about the health of people in L.A. County jails amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

[31][32] The PSA featured Natalie Portman, Gabrielle Union, Joaquin Phoenix, Mahershala Ali, Sterling K. Brown, Kendrick Sampson, Matt McGorry, Busy Philipps, Brandon Flynn, Sophia Bush, Lauren Jauregui, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Shailene Woodley, and Dawn-Lyen Gardner.

[31] After the Murder of George Floyd, JusticeLA organized a vigil outside of Hall of Justice (Los Angeles) to remember the lives lost at the hands of law enforcement.

[34] JusticeLA, in collaboration with Schools Not Prisons, Question Culture, and Reform L.A. Jails, released the album "Defund the Sheriff," which was part of a campaign to shift funding away from incarceration and policing in L.A.

[35][36] Contributors to the album included Aloe Blacc, Madame Gandhi, Rain Phoenix, Vic Mensa, Aja Monet, Lauren Jauregui among others.