City-Wide Elected Officials and Community Groups Rally Outside Rikers to Call for Closure of Jail Complex
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, June 7, 2023 Contact: Yonah Zeitz, yonah@katalcenter.org | (347) 201-2769 Follow on Twitter @KatalCenter | #CloseRikers #CutShutInvestNY City-Wide Elected Officials and Community Groups Rally Outside Rikers to Call for Closure of Jail Complex, Demand Federal Court Appoints Receiver to Address the Deadly Conditions Facing Incarcerated People Statement by Katal Center New […]
Another person dies at Rikers– 22nd Death in City Jails Under Mayor Adams
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, May 31, 2023 Contact: Yonah Zeitz, yonah@katalcenter.org | (347) 201-2769 Follow on Twitter @KatalCenter | #CloseRikers #CutShutInvestNY Another person dies at Rikers– 22nd Death in City Jails Under Mayor Adams Death Comes Days After Federal Monitor for Rikers Island Sounds Alarm About Dangerous Conditions in City Jails Statement by Katal Center […]
Federal Monitor for Rikers Island Sounds Alarm in Scandalous New Report
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, May 30, 2023 Contact: Yonah Zeitz, yonah@katalcenter.org | (347) 201-2769 Follow on Twitter @KatalCenter | #CloseRikers #CutShutInvestNY Federal Monitor for Rikers Island Sounds Alarm in Scandalous New Report Federal Monitor: Incarcerated People Are In Danger to Due the Horrific Conditions in City Jails, DOC Management Cannot Be Trusted Statement by Katal […]
Report: Connecticut Has Aggressive Probation Practices
By Christine Stuart via CT News Junkie Published May 23, 2023 Connecticut’s use of community corrections, particularly aggressive probation tactics, traps thousands of people in the correctional system and fuels a troubling cycle of incarceration, according to a new report released by the Katal Center and the Prison Policy Initiative. The report highlights the disproportionate […]
CT uses probation more aggressively than other states, new data shows
By Alex Putterman via CT Insider Published May 23, 2023 While Connecticut has one of the lowest incarceration rates in the nation, the state uses probation more aggressively than most of its peers, a pair of new reports show. As outlined in a paper released Tuesday by the Prison Policy Initiative and the Hartford-based Katal Center, Connecticut […]
RELEASE: New Report Outlines How Connecticut’s Excessive Use of Probation and Parole Are Drivers of Incarceration
Katal Center Equity, Health, and Justice FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, May 23rd, 2023 Contact: Yonah Zeitz, yonah@katalcenter.org | (347) 201-2768 Follow on socials: @KatalCenter | #FixProbationCT #FixParoleCT New Report: Nearly 35,000 People in Connecticut – Disproportionately People of Color and Low-Income People– are on Probation and Parole, Nearly 3-Times the Number of People Incarcerated in […]
Excessive, unjust, and expensive: Fixing Connecticut’s probation and parole problems
On Tuesday, May 23, 2023 we released a new groundbreaking report with the Prison Policy Initiative titled “Excessive, unjust, and expensive: Fixing Connecticut’s probation and parole problems.” It focuses on how the system of community supervision in Connecticut — probation, parole in all its various types — too often becomes a revolving door for people who get stuck […]
Katal Join With Immigrants Rights Organizations to Reject Mayor Adams’s Proposal to House Asylum Seekers at Rikers
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, May 22, 2023 Contact: Yatziri Tovar, Yatziri.Tovar@maketheroadny.org | (917) 771-2818 Yonah Zeitz, yonah@katalcenter.org | (347) 201-2769 Follow on Twitter: @KatalCenter @MakeTheRoadNY | #CloseRikers Groups Working to Close Rikers Join With Immigrants Rights Organizations to Reject Mayor Adams’s Proposal to House Asylum Seekers at the Notorious and Deadly Jail Complex New York, […]
Another Person Dies at Rikers, the 21st Death in City Jails Under Mayor Adams
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, May 17, 2023 Contact: Yonah Zeitz, yonah@katalcenter.org | (347) 201-2769 Follow on Twitter @KatalCenter | #CloseRikers #CutShutInvestNY Another Person Dies at Rikers, the 21st Death in City Jails Under Mayor Adams Latest Death Comes as Adams Seeks to Cut Core Services, House Asylum Seekers in Jails, and Evade Transparency and Oversite […]
Katal Opposes Bail Reform Rollbacks in Budget Bill
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, May 2, 2023 Contact: Yonah Zeitz, yonah@katalcenter.org | (347) 201-2769 Follow on Twitter @KatalCenter | #BailReformNY #CloseRikers Katal Opposes Bail Reform Rollbacks in Budget Bill, Calls on Lawmakers to Vote Against Jailing More New Yorkers Pretrial The Terrible Proposal, Negotiated in Secret Without Public Review, Will Increase Jail Populations Across the […]
