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Katal Connecticut Update — April 25, 2024
In this issue: -Cultivating Justice Updates -Middletown Monthly Meeting -Statewide Criminal Justice Reform Call -We’re Hiring a Community Organizer -Quotes of the Week
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Katal New York Update — April 19, 2024
In this issue: -Tonight: Shut Rikers Info Session at Nowadays -This Friday, April 19th: Shut Rikers Shut Rikers Tabling Session at Brownsville Safety Alliances community event -Next Thursday, 4/24: Sh…
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Katal New York Update — April 4, 2024
In this issue: -Rikers in Crisis: Another Death and Rampant Abuse -Tonight: Shut Rikers Info Session Hosted by the Black Caucus at the Columbia School of Social Work -Next Wednesday, April 10th: Shu…
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Mayor Adams Finally Appointments Two New Commissioners to Dormant Local Conditional Release Commission
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, March 28, 2024 Contact: Yonah Zeitz, yonah@katalcenter.org • 347-201-2769 Follow on Twitter/X @KatalCenter • #ShutRikers #CutShutInvestNY Following Two Years of…
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Rampant Sex Abuse Against Women In Rikers Will Be Investigated: Mayor
By: Matt Troutman, via Patch NEW YORK CITY — Accusations of rampant sexual against hundreds of women by guards in Rikers Island that led to a combined $14.7 billion in […]
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RELEASE: Under Mayor Adams, Crisis Worsens at City Jails as Another Person Dies in Custody
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, March 26, 2024 Contact: Yonah Zeitz, yonah@katalcenter.org • 347-201-2769 Follow on Twitter/X @KatalCenter • #ShutRikers #CutShutInvestNY Under Mayor Adams, Crisis…
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Groups seek to ‘cultivate justice’ with community farm at unused Middletown park
By Cassandra Day Via Greenwich Time MIDDLETOWN — A social justice organization wants to turn a rarely used park in the North End into a farm run by youth and […]
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Statement from the Katal Center on Today’s City Council Budget Hearing on Mental Health
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, March 21, 2024 Contact: Yonah Zeitz, yonah@katalcenter.org | (347) 201-2769 Follow on Twitter @KatalCenter | #ShutRikers | #CutShutInvestNY Statement from the Katal C…
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Katal New York Update — March 21, 2024
In this issue: -Victory! NYC City Council Overrides Mayor To Advance Safety and Accountability -Protesting Mayor Adams’s State of the City Address -Two People Die at Rikers in January Katal in the…
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Jeffrion Aubry, voice of the Assembly, is leaving it after 30 years
By: Rebecca C. Lewis via City and State New York Sitting in the lobby of the Louis Armstrong Center in Corona, Queens, in mid-February, Assembly Member Jeffrion Aubry looked for […]
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Statement from the Katal Center on Budget Hearing Held by the New York City Council Committee on Criminal Justice
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, March 8, 2024 Contact: Yonah Zeitz, yonah@katalcenter.org | (347) 201-2769 Follow on Twitter/X @KatalCenter | #ShutRikers | #CutShutInvestNY Statement from the Katal Ce…
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Katal Testimony — Committee on Criminal Justice Preliminary Budget Hearing FY 2025
Thank you, Chair Sandy Nurse, for holding this New York City Council Budget and Oversight Hearing on the Preliminary Budget of the Department of Correction for Fiscal Year 2025. My […]
