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Katal New York Update — May 1, 2025
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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Katal New York Update — April 17, 2025
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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Testimony at Committee on Criminal Justice Hearing
Thank you, Chair Sandy Nurse, for holding today’s Committee on Criminal Justice. My name is Yonah Zeitz and I am the New York Advocacy Director at the Katal Center for Equity, […]
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Rally Against Mayor Adams’ ICE Office at Rikers
For Immediate Release: Wednesday, April 10, 2025 Press Contact: Reed Dunlea, rdunlea@nyic.org, 929-923-8863 Yonah Zeitz, yonah@katalcenter.org, 347-201-2768 *Press Release* Advocates, Elected Offici…
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Adams’s Re-Opens ICE Office at Rikers
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, April 9, 2025 Contact: Yonah Zeitz, yonah@katalcenter.org | (347) 201-2769 Follow on socials @KatalCenter | #ShutRikers Community Organizations and Advocates R…
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Criminal Justice Advocacy Clinic Bill Advances Out of CT Joint JudiciaryCommittee
Yale Law School News April 8, 2025 On April 7, the Connecticut Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act, S.B. 1502 (CT DVSJA),successfully passed out of the Joint Judiciary Committee of the […]
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Katal New York Update — April 3, 2025
In This Issue: -Press Conference in Albany to Increase Jail and Prison Oversight -Another Death at Rikers this Week -Saturday 4/5: Hands Off! National Day of Action -Weekly Pro-Democracy Phone Zaps…
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Another Death at Rikers, the 5th Death in the Last Six Weeks
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, April 1, 2025 Contact: Yonah Zeitz: yonah@katalcenter.org • 347-201-2769 Follow on socials @KatalCenter • #ShutRikers #CutShutInvestNY Another Death at Rikers, the 5…
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5 Rikers Detainees Have Already Died This Year as Crisis Worsens
By Hurubie Meko and Jan Ransom at the NYTimes April 1, 2025 In the first three months of the year, five people have died at the Rikers Island jail complex […]
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As Deaths Mount in New York Jails and Prisons, Advocates Rally for Oversight: Reporters’ Notebook
By Chris Gelardi at New York FocusMarch 29, 2025 Over the past three months, New York Focus has reported extensively on the New York stateprison system’s descent into tumult. An […]
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Katal Connecticut Update — March 27, 2025
In this issue: -Supporting Cultivating Justice -Weaver High School Career Fair -Get Involved to Fix Probation in Connecticut -Pro-Democracy Phone Zap -Quotes of the Week
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NY lawmakers say colleagues are stalling prison oversight bill
By Jeongyoon Han at WXXI March 25, 2025 A push to expand the state’s independent prison oversight body appears to have stalled in theAssembly. The effort comes after Robert Brooks […]
