• weekly update – april 18, 2019

    In this issue… Connecticut: Youth in Adult Prisons In Broome County: Building Support for #LessIsMoreNY In Montgomery County: Harm Reduction Training, ‘Meeting People Where They Are’…

  • weekly update – april 12, 2019

    In this issue… Connecticut: Calling All Youth Justice Advocates #RockReform10: Rockefeller Drug Law Reforms, 10 Years Later Connecticut: Calling All Youth Justice Advocates! If you’re in t…

  • hartford courant: inmate who overdose on fentanyl at hartford correctional center dies

    By David Owens   HARTFORD, CT: One of the four inmates at the Hartford Correctional Center who overdosed on fentanyl Thursday night has died, a correction department official said Tuesd…

  • weekly update – april 4, 2019

    In this issue… Major Victory in New York Connecticut: Strengthening Community Ties with our Member Base Join Us in Congratulating Donna Hylton: Ann Atwater Award for Social Change Honoree Major…

  • #rockreform10: anthony papa on the rockefeller drug laws

    #RockReform10 Anthony Papa on the Rockefeller Drug Laws NY Daily News Op-Ed and Video Anthony Papa thanking Governor David A. Paterson for signing reforms to the Rockefeller Drug Laws, 2009…

  • release – major criminal justice reforms passed in new york

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, April 1, 2019 Contact: Yan Snead, ysnead@katalcenter.org | 518-360-1534 Major Criminal Justice Reforms Passed in New York  Historic Pretrial Reforms will Reduce Jail P…

  • making sense of bail reform in nys, part 1

    Rikers Island Jail Complex, operated by the New York City Department of Correction. To make sense of bail reform in Albany, it helps to know a bit about what kind of […]

  • weekly update – march 28, 2019

    In this issue… Making Sense of Bail Reform in New York Connecticut: A Community Conversation on Health, Equity, and Justice Making Sense of Bail Reform in New York Rikers Island […]

  • statement: nyc council criminal justice committee passes resolution 829

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Yan Snead, ysnead@katalcenter.org | 609.680.8185   New York City Council Criminal Justice Committee Passes Resolution 829 Resolution Calling on Albany to…

  • weekly update – march 22, 2019

    In this issue… Op-Ed, “Key to Communities of Color: What does that key open?” Brooklyn, Sunday, March 24th: Discussion about NY’s broken parole system Albany: Monthly Harm Redu…

  • key to communities of color: what doors does that key open?

    by Lorenzo Jones and Kenyatta Thompson   Rapper and REFORM Co-founder, Meek Mill. Matt Rourke/AP   On Monday, March 18th, Quinnipiac University held a Criminal Justice Reform Summit, an…

  • weekly update – march 14, 2019

    In this issue… New York: Victory at the Capitol for Survivors of Domestic Violence Building Bridges: Decarceration from the Community’s Perspective New York: Victory at the Capitol for Sur…