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A second chance: How the parole justice movement has gained steam in New York state
By Robbie Sequeira via BronxTimes Without a second chance, Donna Hylton would have never transformed her life. Without a second chance, Hylton may only be remembered for a traumatic childhood that inc…
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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, the state…
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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 us from New Yor…
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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 down Rikers Islan…
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Katal New York Update — May 29, 2025
In this issue: – NY Senate Passes SCOC Bill – SCOC Press Conference in Albany – Katal in the News (both op-eds) – NY Statewide Call – Quotes of the Week
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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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Archived Campaigns & Projects
Katal in Connecticut (2015-2025) For nearly a decade, Katal organized in Connecticut to build power and cut correctional populations, shut down jails and prisons, and invest in real safety: ho…
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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 the d…
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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 Stat…
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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 suspension of elements o…
