Katal New York Update — January 30, 2025
In this issue:
-Organizing to Address Deadly Conditions in Jails and Prisons Across NY
-Receivership and Organizing to Shut Rikers
-Quotes of the Week
State prison oversight group: Marcy fatality review ‘could take years’
Author: Kate Lisa with Spectrum News 1/29/2025 It could take years for the state Commission on Correction to complete a mortality review of an incarcerated man who was beaten to death by multiple officers at Marcy Correctional Facility last month, the oversight group’s chair said Wednesday. The commission, which provides oversight to all state prisons, […]
City nominates itself to take over Rikers
Author: By Jacob Kaye 1/24/2025 City Hall late Friday told a federal judge that she should look no further than the current Department of Correction commissioner should she choose to strip the city of its control of Rikers Island and hand the notorious jail complex over to a receiver. The proposal, which was submitted to […]
Katal New York Update — January 16, 2026

In this issue:
-Justice for Robert Brooks at the State of the City
-The State Commission of Correction is Failing
-Shut Down Rikers Protest at Mayor State of the City
-Quotes of the Week
The SCOC Is Failing To Keep Incarcerated People From Harlem To The Hudson Safe
Author: N/A 1/9/2025 As the 2025 legislative session kicks off, conditions in jails and prisons across the state are deadly and dangerous for incarcerated people and those who work there. The gruesome killing of Robert Brooks by correctional officers at Marcy Correctional Facility is a stark and gut-wrenching example of the State Commission of Correction […]
Katal New York Update — December 19, 2024
In this issue:
Organizing to Shut Rikers in 2025
#Shutrikers Outreach
Katal In The News
January NY Statewide Criminal Justice Reform Call
Quotes of the Week
Katal’s Annual Stewardship Letter: 2024 in Review – and Gearing Up for the New Year

By Lorenzo Jones and gabriel sayegh In reflecting over this past year and looking toward the next, we keep coming back to this quote from the civil rights and labor organizer Grace Lee Boggs: “What time is it on the clock of the world?” It’s an urgent question for the entire country and for our […]
Sustaining Donor Drive: Email Fun

Below is a fundraising email we sent out as a part of our Sustaining Donor Drive: Subject: [Silly photos and emojis inside] Dear Friend, As we approach the end of the year, we are reflecting🪞on all of the work we’ve done over the past year – organizing with thousands of people across Connecticut and New […]
Katal Connecticut Update — December 12, 2024
In this issue:
Recap: Trinity College Info Session
We’re Hiring a CT Apprentice Organizer
Final Statewide Call of the Year
Middletown Chicken Action Meeting
Quotes of the Week
Katal New York Update — December 5, 2024
In this Issue:
Federal Court Moves Closer to Receivership and Upcoming Info Session
Last New York Criminal Justice Reform Call of the Year
25th Anniversary of the WTO Protests in Seattle
Quotes of the Week