Katal New York Update — May 1, 2025
In this issue:
-Victory! NYC City Council Overrides Mayor To Advance Safety and Accountability
-Protesting Mayor Adams’s State of the City Address
-Two People Die at Rikers in January
Katal in the News
-Quotes of the Week
Katal New York Update — April 17, 2025
In this issue:
-Victory! NYC City Council Overrides Mayor To Advance Safety and Accountability
-Protesting Mayor Adams’s State of the City Address
-Two People Die at Rikers in January
Katal in the News
-Quotes of the Week
Katal New York Update — April 3, 2025
In This Issue:
-Press Conference in Albany to Increase Jail and Prison Oversight
-Another Death at Rikers this Week
-Saturday 4/5: Hands Off! National Day of Action
-Weekly Pro-Democracy Phone Zaps
-Katal in the News
-Quotes of the Week
Katal Connecticut Update — March 27, 2025
In this issue:
-Supporting Cultivating Justice
-Weaver High School Career Fair
-Get Involved to Fix Probation in Connecticut
-Pro-Democracy Phone Zap
-Quotes of the Week
Katal New York Update — March 20, 2025
In this issue:
-Tuesday 3/25: Press Conference in Albany to Increase Jail and Prison Oversight
-Two Deaths at Rikers this Week
-Weekly Pro-Democracy Phone Zaps
-March to Stop the Federal Cuts
-Katal in the News
-Quotes of the Week
Woman detainee dies at Rikers, fourth death in 30 days amid spike in NYC jails population
By Graham Rayman at the Daily NewsMarch 20th, 2025 A woman held on Rikers Island died by possible suicide early Thursday, according to correction officials and sources. The death, an apparent suicide according to sources, took place in West Facility and is the fourth fatality connected to New York City jails since Feb. 19. It […]
‘Dysfunction, violence and neglect’: Independent Rikers Commission releases new blueprint for island jail’s closure
By Jada Camille at amNYMarch 19th, 2025 The Independent Rikers Commission, a collective tasked with examining the city’s plan to close Rikers Island, has unveiled a critical blueprint for reform and closure of the infamous jail complex that has long been characterized by unsafe conditions, high operational costs, violence, and systemic dysfunction. The comprehensive report, […]
City cannot shut Rikers by 2027, landmark report finds
By Jacob Kaye at Queens Daily EagleMarch 19th, 2025 In a stark admission on Wednesday, the commission formed to map out the closure of Rikers Island said that the current 2027 deadline to shutter the deadly jail complex has become impossible for the city to meet. While the legally-mandated August 2027 deadline for Rikers’ closure […]
Katal Connecticut Update — March 13, 2025
In this issue:
Growing Power 2025 Recap
Justice Impact Survey
March Statewide Criminal Justice Reform Call
Pro-Democracy Phone Zap
Quotes of the Week
Connecticut organization fights food insecurity by teaching farming
By Sydney Boyo at NBC ConnecticutMarch 9th, 2025 Over 465,000 people in Connecticut are food insecure, according to Connecticut Foodshare, and learning how to farm can help combat this. Hundreds of people in Hartford learned how to grow and gather their own food on Sunday at the third annual Growing Power Workshop. “Anyone can learn […]
