After Years of Advocacy by Directly Impacted People, City Council Submits Letter to Court

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, February 12, 2025 Contact: Yonah Zeitz, yonah@katalcenter.org • 347-201-2769 Follow on X @KatalCenter | #ShutRikers | #CutShutInvestNY After Years of Advocacy by Directly Impacted People, City Council Submits Letter to Court Urging That Any Receiver at Rikers Be Independent and Follow Law to Close Rikers  Community Groups Applaud the Letter and […]

Trump Admin’s Move to Drop Adams Case is an Attack on Justice

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, February 11, 2021 Contact: Yonah Zeitz, yonah@katalcenter.org • 347-201-2769 Follow @KatalCenter | #ShutRikers | #CutShutInvestNY Trump Admin’s Move to Drop Adams Case is an Attack on Justice  Eric Adams Selling Out Immigrants to Curry Favor with Trump is an Attack on All New Yorkers  Response by the Katal Center Members and […]

Katal Responds to City Council Court Filing on Receivership at Rikers

Yonah Zeitz, NY advocacy director of the Katal Center for Equity, Health, and Justice: “Katal and our partners have been fighting for over two years to get the City Council to weigh in on federal receivership at Rikers. The Council’s letter ​to the court indicates that​ our sustained organizing has worked​.​ The Council asks that […]

Senate Bill 856 (Salazar) Advances through Senate Crime, Crime Victims, and Correction Committee

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, February 4, 2025 Contact: Yonah Zeitz, yonah@katalcenter.org • 347-201-2769 Follow on X @KatalCenter • #ShutRikers   Senate Bill 856 (Salazar) Advances through Senate Crime, Crime Victims, and Correction Committee Legislation Would Expand & Diversify Membership of State Commission of Correction to Foster Greater Accountability to its Mandate  Albany, NY –  Today, the […]

This is not normal. It’s time for action.

Dear Friend, What’s happening right now in Washington, DC is not normal. Two weeks into the new Trump Administration, and the country faces a serious constitutional crisis. Trump is violating laws, ignoring the constitution, turning over access to sensitive U.S. Treasury data to an oligarch, attacking immigrants and trans folks, restricting access to critical government […]

Community Groups Call on the Council to Hold Adams Accountable for Shutting Rikers and Addressing Dangerous Conditions

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, January 30, 2025 Contact: Yonah Zeitz, yonah@katalcenter.org • 347-201-2769 Follow on X @KatalCenter | #ShutRikers | #CutShutInvestNY As Criminal Justice Committee Meets Today, Community Groups Call on the Council to Hold Adams Accountable for Shutting Rikers and Addressing Dangerous ConditionsFederal Court on the Verge of Appointing an Independent Receiver to Take […]

At Latest Meeting, SCOC Refuses to Address Killing of Robert Brook By Correctional Officers 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, January 29, 2025 Contact: Yonah Zeitz, yonah@katalcenter.org • 347-201-2769 Follow on X @KatalCenter • #ShutRikers  At Latest Meeting, State Commission on Correction, with Oversight Authority over Jails and Prisons, Refuses to Address Killing of Robert Brook By Correctional Officers  Community Groups Call for Legislative Change to Make Commission Meet its Mandate […]

Mayor Adams’s Administration Refuses to Outline Structure of Independent Receiver at Rikers

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, January 24, 2025 Contact: Yonah Zeitz, yonah@katalcenter.org • 347-201-2769 Follow on X: @KatalCenter | #ShutRikers | #CutShutInvestNY Mayor Adams’s Administration Refuses to Outline Structure of Independent Receiver at Rikers, Proposes More of Same  Statement by Katal Center on Today’s Federal Court Filings New York, NY: Today, after four months, the federal […]

Katal Joins Community Groups In Protest of Mayor Adams’s State of the City Address

**PRESS RELEASE** Thursday, January 9, 2025 Contact: Yonah Zeitz – 347-201-2768 yonah@katalcenter.org,  Follow online: #ShutRikers #CutShutInvestNY | @katalcenter | shutriker.org Katal Joins Community Groups In Protest of Mayor Adams’s State of the City Address  Demands Include Shutting Down Rikers and Making Deep Investments in True Public Safety: Housing, Health Care, Education, and Jobs New York, […]

The State Commission of Correction is Failing to Keep Incarcerated People Safe

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, January 9, 2025 Contact: Yonah Zeitz, yonah@katalcenter.org • 347-201-2769 Follow on Twitter/X @KatalCenter • #ShutRikers  With Jails and Prisons from Rikers to Marcy in Deadly and Dangerous Conditions, the State Commission of Correction is Failing to Keep Incarcerated People Safe Community Groups Vow to Keep Up Fight to Ensure the Commission […]