Katal New York Update — March 6, 2025
In this issue:
-Katal In Albany to Advance Jail and Prison Oversight
-Rally and March To Demand Hochul Remove Adams
-Pro-Democracy Phone Zaps
-Katal in the News
-Quotes of the Week
NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ plans to allow ICE into Rikers worry immigrant rights advocates
By Bianca Gonzalez at PrismMarch 4th, 2025 Adams has not yet issued the executive order, but immigrant rights groups say the move would target immigrants presumed innocent while awaiting trial at the jail complex. Immigrant rights groups are raising alarm about New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ plans to formally allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement […]
Katal Connecticut Update — February 27, 2025
In this issue:
Growing Power 2025
Fix Probation Action Tools
Statewide Call
Quote of the Week
Advocacy groups say state prison agency can’t halt law limiting solitary confinement
By Rebecca C. Lewis at City and StateFebruary 24th, 2025 The commissioner of the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision released a memo last week announcing that certain provisions of the HALT Solitary Confinement law would be suspended. A coalition of nearly 100 criminal justice reform organizations, public defenders and other advocacy groups sent […]
Katal New York Update — February 21, 2025
In this issue:
Advancing Jail and Prison Oversight in Albany
Taking Action This Week To Protect New Yorkers and Remove Adams!
Katal at the Film Forum
Katal in the News
Quotes of the Week
“He’s not standing up”: Protesters want Hakeem Jeffries to lead an aggressive opposition to Trump
Author: Russell Payne with Salon2/21/25 Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered outside the central Brooklyn office of Rep. Hakeem Jeffries. D-N.Y., on Thursday to demand that the minority leader put up more forceful opposition to the administration of President Donald Trump and his billionaire benefactor, Elon Musk. “Hakeem Jeffries, where’s the firewall? Where’s your plan B? […]
Another Death in NYC Jail, as Mayor Adams Plans to Send in ICE
Author: Alexander Lekhtman with Filter2/20/25The New York City jails crisis is spiraling; a 34th person is now reported to have died in custodyunder the tenure of Mayor Eric Adams (D). Adams’ fate meanwhile hangs in the balance after aFebruary 19 court hearing. Multiple federal prosecutors resigned following the Trumpadministration’s move to dismiss corruption charges against […]
Man held on Rikers for 19 months becomes first to die in jails in 2025
Author: Jacob Kaye with Queens Daily Eagle2/20/25A 38-year-old man died on Rikers Island on Wednesday morning.Ramel Powell, who had been held in the city’s jails for nearly two years as he awaited trial, wasfound dead inside the Otis Bantum Correctional Center on Rikers around 2:14 a.m., according tothe Department of Correction.The DOC, which announced Powell’s […]
Rikers Island Sees Another Inmate Die in Custody Amid Calls for Federal Takeover – and Return of ICE
Author: Robert Pozarycki with amNY Date: February 19, 2025 Another individual incarcerated on Rikers Island has died, the Correction Department (DOC) announced early Wednesday morning. The unidentified inmate was found at an unspecified facility on the island during the early hours of Feb. 19, according to a terse statement from the DOC. The agency indicated […]
Rikers Island detainee dies in jail complex’s first death of 2025
Author: 1010 WINS Newsroom with AudacyFebruary 19th, 2025 NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — A Rikers Island jail complex inmate died while in custody on Wednesday morning, marking the first detainee death so far in 2025, according to the New York City Department of Correction. Ramel Powell, 38, was pronounced dead at the Otis Bantum Correctional […]
