-
Community Conversation: Harm Reduction in New Haven
Join us Wednesday, July 31 from 6:00 – 7:45 pm at the New Haven Free Public Library (Ives Branch) for a Community Conversation on Harm Reduction in New Haven! During the conversation, we w…
-
As ct legislature convenes for 2021, impacted people & community groups call on lawmakers to cut correctional populations, shut down prisons, and invest the savings into communities most impacted by mass incarceration
Posted on January 06, 2021 Wednesday, January 6th, 2020 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Kenyatta Thompson, kthompson@katalcenter.org | (860) 937-6094 Sumeet Sharma, ssharma@katalcenter.org | (6…
-
CT Statewide Criminal Justice Reform Call
Join us Thursday, March 4th from 11 – 12 p.m. for our CT Statewide Criminal Justice Reform Call via Zoom.us The goals of the Monthly CT Statewide Criminal Justice Reform […]
-
COVID-19 in CT Prisons & Jails: #FreeThemNowCT Fact Sheet
As Connecticut continues to confront COVID-19, Governor Ned Lamont and state officials have failed to develop a comprehensive plan to tackle the crisis of the novel coronavirus in jails and prisons…
-
#LessIsMoreNY Info Session
Last month, lawmakers returned to session where they took up several criminal justice bills in their committees. However, many important criminal justice reform bills that community members have been…
-
Katal New York Update-May 13, 2022
In this issue: -Monday’s #LessIsMoreNY Town Hall -Yesterday’s NY Statewide Criminal Justice Reform Call -Op-Ed by Katal’s Lorenzo Jones -We’re Hiring – NYC Community Organizer -Sundiata is Co…
-
Jlusa & Katal Teleconference, Notes to the Field
On Tuesday January 8th, 2019, JustLeadershipUSA and the Katal Center for Health, Equity, and Justice held a teleconference for our philanthropic supporters and our partners in New York to share ne…
-
Nyc Katal Center Monthly Meeting
In this monthly meeting we will discuss our next steps moving forward now that Rikers Island has been voted to be closed in favor of the borough based jails system, […]
-
Katal Center Statement on the Deadly White Supremacist Mass Shooting in Buffalo
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Sunday, May 15, 2022 Contact: Yonah Zeitz, yonah@katalcenter.org | (347) 201-2769 Follow on Twitter @KatalCenter Katal Center Responds to Deadly White Supremacist Mass Shooti…
-
Kenyatta Thompson
Kenyatta Thompson Lead Community Organizer Kenyatta M. Thompson is the lead community organizer with the Katal Center for Equity, Health, and Justice. Her experiences growing up in Brooklyn exposed h…
-
Reflections on Mayor Eric Adams: The Poor Man’s Rudy Giuliani
By: Lorenzo Jones via Medium.com The smoke hadn’t cleared from the New Year’s fireworks when newly elected Mayor Eric Adams launched into action to undo any perception of progress in […]