Rikers Island detainee dies after apparent medical episode, marks fifth death in jails this year
Ben Brachfeld, via AMNY A person detained on Rikers Island became the fifth person held in city jails to die this year, passing away at a Queens hospital Tuesday morning after an apparent medical episode. The Department of Correction said that Anthony Jordan, 63, was rushed from the jail complex’s North Infirmary Command to Mount […]
Middletown Inland Wetlands Watercourses Agency Continues to Hinder A Black-Owned Farm from Operating and Serving the Community
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, August 20th, 2024 Contact: Diana Martinez, diana@katalcenter.org | 860-580-9402 Follow on Instagram @KatalCenter | #CutShutInvestCT Middletown Inland Wetlands Watercourses Agency Continues to Hinder A Black-Owned Farm from Operating and Serving the Community Middletown, CT—Last Thursday, August 14, at the Middletown Inland Wetlands Watercourses Agency (IWWA) monthly meeting, the Commissioners kept the […]
Katal New York Update — August 15, 2024
In this issue:
-Today’s Vendor Justice March
Farewell to Our Summer Interns Lune, Sara, and Calum
-Last Saturday’s Shut Rikers Zine Art Build
-Wednesday 8/21: Shut Rikers Phone Zap
-Thursday 8/22: Community Conversation at Brooklyn Heights Library
-Katal Quotes of the Week
Katal New York Update — August 2, 2024
In this issue:
-Outreach in Harlem with The Brotherhood Sister Sol
-July 31: Rally to End Solitary Confinement at New York City Hall
-Tabling at Brownsville Safety Alliance Community Event Last Week
-Next Week: Phone Zap on Wednesday, August 7!
-Katal in the News
-Katal Quotes of the Week
Personnel shakeup proposed at prison oversight commission
David Lombardo, via Capitol Press Room A group of progressive criminal justice advocates and Democratic state lawmakers are hoping to reform the state Commission of Correction so that it has more members and more diverse backgrounds. Yonah Zeitz, director of advocacy with the Katal Center for Equity, Health, and Justice, discusses how new personnel at the oversight […]
Katal New York Update — July 18, 2024
In this issue:
-ALERT: Recent Death at Rikers
-Recap: Shut Rikers Rally and March
-Shut Rikers Info Session at King Towers Senior Center in Harlem Next Wednesday, –July 24: Shut Rikers Phone Zap
-Quotes of the Week
Crisis and Mismanagement Worsen at City Jails as Another Person Dies in Custody
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, July 17, 2024 Contact: Yonah Zeitz, yonah@katalcenter.org • 347-201-2769 Follow on Twitter/X @KatalCenter • #ShutRikers #CutShutInvestNY Under Mayor Adams, Crisis and Mismanagement Worsen at City Jails as Another Person Dies in CustodyWith at Least 32 People Dead and Violence out of Control Under Adams, Calls Grow for a Federal Receiver to […]
The Rikers federal takeover waiting game
By Emily Ngo, Jeff Coltin and Nick Reisman, via POLITICO A status hearing today on whether control of Rikers Island should be stripped from the Adams administration and given to a federal receiver also serves as a status check of the notoriously dysfunctional jail complex. “The most basic elements of care and custody, including rudimentary practices necessary […]
Will Rikers in NYC be run by federal authorities? A judge weighs the option
By James Ford, via Pix11 News LOWER MANHATTAN (PIX11) — For nine decades, the City of New York has operated the jail on Rikers Island. On Tuesday, the possibility of the federal government taking over was the center of a hearing before a judge, with no fewer than 14 attorneys making their cases for or […]
Middletown concerned about wetlands activity where farmer wants to create incubatorfarm
By Cassandra Day, via The Middletown Press MIDDLETOWN — A city agency recently prolonged a cease and desist order it issued in June to a local farmer and owner of 13.5 acres at 350 Randolph Road following a wetlands dispute. Matt Mitchell, owner of Lovie’s Farm, returned to the Middletown Inland Wetlands and Watercourses Agency meeting last week without […]
