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Katal Releases New Tool Tracking Positions of Mayoral Candidates on Closing Rikers Island and Other Key Criminal Justice Reforms
**PRESS RELEASE** June 2, 2025 Contact: Yonah Zeitz | 347-201-2768 | yonah@katalcenter.org Follow online: #ShutRikers #CutShutInvestNY | @katalcenter | shutrikers.org New: Katal Rele…
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State’s prison oversight panel faces criticism, calls for reform
By Robert Gavin at Buffalo News Jun 1, 2025 ALBANY – In the five months after prison officers beat 43-year-old Robert Brooks to death inMarcy Correctional Facility in Oneida County, […]
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Eric Adams Loses Control of Rikers Island to Federal Receivership
By Margaret Kimberley at Black Agenda Report May 30, 2025 Our guest is Melanie Dominguez, Organizing Director, New York with the Katal Center forEquity, Health, and Justice . She joins […]
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OP-ED: With Rikers Island, Eric Adams has made a bad situation worse
By gabriel sayegh in Amsterdam News May 29, 2025 The New York Daily News recently ran an exclusive story with the headline “NYC Mayor Adamsexploring abandoning current plan to shut […]
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Community Groups and Impacted People Gather in Albany to Demand Reforms to Failing Jail and Prison Watchdog
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, May 28, 2025 Contact: Yonah Zeitz, yonah@katalcenter.org • 347-201-2769 Follow online: @katalcenter | #ShutRikers | shutrikers.org Community Groups and Impacted…
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Advocates call for expanded State Commission of Correction
By Jamie DeLine at News 10 May 28, 2025 ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10)—Prison reform advocates gathered in Albany on Wednesdayfollowing a monthly meeting of the State Commission of Correction. They say [&hel…
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New York’s Prisons and Jails are Deadly. Expanding Oversight Will Save Lives
By Assembly Member Emily Gallagher and Ziyadah Amatul-Matin in the Empire Report May 28, 2025 New York’s prisons and jails are dangerous and deadly for incarcerated people. For decades,New York [&he…
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Wednesday, 5/28: Press Conference in Albany to Demand Reforms to Government Watchdog with Authority Over Local Jails and State Prisons
**MEDIA ADVISORY** May 27, 2025 Contact: Yonah Zeitz: 347-201-2768 yonah@katalcenter.org Follow online: @katalcenter | #ShutRikers | shutrikers.org Wednesday, 5/28: Press Conference in Albany to Dem…
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55 N.Y. legislators urge state to stop suspending elements of HALT solitaryconfinement law
By Graham Rayman at the Daily News May 27, 2025 A group of 55 state legislators sent a letter Tuesday to the state prisons commissioner urginghim to discontinue the poststrike […]
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New York State Senate Passes Bill 856 (Salazar)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, May 20, 2025 Contact: Yonah Zeitz, yonah@katalcenter.org • 347-201-2769 Follow on socials @KatalCenter • #ShutRikers New York State Senate Passes Bill 856 (Salazar…
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New York State Senate Passes Bill 856 (Salazar) Strengthen Watchdog Agency with Investigative and Oversight Powers Over Jails and Prison, Community Groups, Directly Impacted News Yorkers, and Elected Officials Applaud the State Senate, Call on Assembly to Act on Overhauling the State Commission of Correction
Albany, NY—Today, the New York State Senate passed S.856 (Salazar) for the second straight year. This bill expands and strengthens the State Commission of Correction (SCOC), the watchdog agency with…
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Katal New York Update — May 15, 2025
In this issue: -SCOC Budget Wins and Movement in the Senate -Federal Courts Takes Control of Rikers -Katal Testifying at Public Hearing on Prison Crisis -Dignity Not Detention Rally -Quotes of the Wee…
