Katal New York Update- April 20, 2023
In this issue:
-Advocacy Day in Albany
-Rally to Close Rikers
-ICYMI: Katal on BronxNet TV
-Quotes of the week
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Katal Center Gives Update On Bail Issues At NY Capitol
By: MediaSanctuary via SoundCloud The debate over whether or not to rollback recent reforms to bail has held up the state budget for 18 days past the deadline. While the media reports that legislative leaders have struck a deal on bail, details have not been officially released. Yonah Zeitz of the Katal Center for Equity, […]
Katal Connecticut Update- April 13, 2023
In this issue:
-Katal Op-ed in the Hartford Courant
-Upcoming BLOC Training
-Save the Date: CT Food Justice Gathering
-Quotes of the Week
Kenyatta Muzzanni: The Connecticut Juvenile Training School should be demolished
By: Kenyatta Muzzanni via Hartford Courant For 20 years our politicians force-fed us a line that the Connecticut Juvenile Training School was an educational institution when it was actually a prison for kids. The facility closed in 2018 after decades of community organizing and public outcry over the inhumane conditions and abuses children experienced behind its walls. […]
Katal New York Update- April 6, 2023
In this issue:
-No Bail Reform Rollback, Close Rikers
-Rallying to Protect Trans People and Defund the NYPD
-Quotes of the week
Dismantling Middletown’s Dark Past: A Tumultuous History of Juvenile Incarceration and the Future of the CJTS
By: Carolyn Neugarten via The Wesleyan Argus The remains of the Connecticut Juvenile Training School (CJTS), a jarring ring of six cement and brick buildings, lie among the rows of pale yellow and blue houses situated along Middletown’s Silver Street. Accounts of inhumane use of solitary confinement and chemical agents on juvenile offenders, untrained staff, […]
Katal Connecticut Update- March 31, 2023
In this issue:
-Transitions at Katal
-ICYMI: Middletown Community Conversation
-April Statewide Criminal Justice Reform Call
-Quotes of the Week
Katal New York Update- March 24, 2023
In this issue:
-Katal Testifies at New York City Council Budget Hearing
-Outreach in Brownsville to Close Rikers
-Quotes of the Week
Katal New York Update- March 9, 2023
In this issue:
-ICYMI: Rally to Protect Bail & Close Rikers
-March CJ Reform Call Recap
-Upcoming Close Rikers Phone Banking Session
-Quotes of the Week
