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Elected Officials and Community Groups Rally at City Hall to Demand Hochul Remove Adams
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, February 27, 2025 Contact: Yonah Zeitz, yonah@katalcenter.org | (347) 201-2769 Follow on socials @KatalCenter, @NYChange, @JFREJNYC, @foodandwater, @theblackinsti…
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Community Group Heads to Albany Today to Demand Action
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, February 25, 2025 Contact: Yonah Zeitz: yonah@katalcenter.org • 347-201-2769 Follow on socials @KatalCenter • #ShutRikers #CutShutInvestNY With Jails and Prisons Acr…
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Another Death at Rikers, the 2nd Person to Die in a Week
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, February 24, 2025 Contact: Yonah Zeitz: yonah@katalcenter.org • 347-201-2769 Follow on socials @KatalCenter • #ShutRikers #CutShutInvestNY Another Death at Rikers, th…
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Advocacy groups say state prison agency can’t halt law limiting solitary confinement
By Rebecca C. Lewis at City and StateFebruary 24th, 2025 The commissioner of the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision released a memo last week announcing that certain provisions…
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Katal New York Update — February 21, 2025
In this issue: Advancing Jail and Prison Oversight in Albany Taking Action This Week To Protect New Yorkers and Remove Adams! Katal at the Film Forum Katal in the News Quotes of the Week
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“He’s not standing up”: Protesters want Hakeem Jeffries to lead an aggressive opposition to Trump
Author: Russell Payne with Salon2/21/25 Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered outside the central Brooklyn office of Rep. Hakeem Jeffries. D-N.Y., on Thursday to demand that the minority leader put up [&he…
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Another Death in NYC Jail, as Mayor Adams Plans to Send in ICE
Author: Alexander Lekhtman with Filter2/20/25The New York City jails crisis is spiraling; a 34th person is now reported to have died in custodyunder the tenure of Mayor Eric Adams (D). […]
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Man held on Rikers for 19 months becomes first to die in jails in 2025
Author: Jacob Kaye with Queens Daily Eagle2/20/25A 38-year-old man died on Rikers Island on Wednesday morning.Ramel Powell, who had been held in the city’s jails for nearly two years as […]
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Rikers Island Sees Another Inmate Die in Custody Amid Calls for Federal Takeover – and Return of ICE
Author: Robert Pozarycki with amNY Date: February 19, 2025 Another individual incarcerated on Rikers Island has died, the Correction Department (DOC) announced early Wednesday morning. The unidentifie…
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As Mayor Adams Sells Out New Yorkers to Trump, Another Person Dies at Rikers – 34th Since Eric Adams Took Office
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, February 19, 2025 Contact: Yonah Zeitz: yonah@katalcenter.org • 347-201-2769 Follow on socials @KatalCenter • #ShutRikers #CutShutInvestNY As Mayor Adams Sells Out…
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Rikers Island detainee dies in jail complex’s first death of 2025
Author: 1010 WINS Newsroom with AudacyFebruary 19th, 2025 NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — A Rikers Island jail complex inmate died while in custody on Wednesday morning, marking the first detainee […]
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City Council asks judge to protect their power over Rikers ahead of receivership ruling
Author: Jacob Kaye with Queens Daily Eagle 2/14/25 If a federal judge follows through with her threat to strip the city of its control of Rikers Island, she should make […]
