Another Person Incarcerated in Connecticut Dies from COVID-19
Connecticut Lawmakers Must Pass Legislation to Protect Incarcerated People from COVID-19 this Session
Press Release: Next Phase of Less Is More Parole Reform Act Takes Effect
Coalition Issues Status Report on Implementation—Progress Thus Far Includes Almost 1,500 People Released From Incarceration.
Press Release – #CutShutINVEST Start of Session, 2.8.2022
As CT General Assembly Convenes for 2022 Session, People Directly Impacted by Mass Incarceration Demand Real Reform
Katal 2021 Wrap up and Thank you
By now we’re all tired of the word unprecedented: We’ve been dealing with a pandemic for more than two years. It can be hard to see and feel progress when hardship and personal loss surround us. Still, we are grateful that a stable foundation of community support fosters resilience, hope, and health. Building this base […]
Two More Incarcerated People in Connecticut Die from COVID-19
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, January 20th, 2022 Contact: Yonah Zeitz, yonah@katalcenter.org | (347) 201-2768 Follow on Twitter @katalcenter Two More Incarcerated People in Connecticut Die from COVID COVID Deaths on the Rise in CT DOC Statement from Kenyatta Muzzanni, Director of Organizing, Katal Center for Equity, Health, and Justice Hartford, CT: “News broke yesterday that two […]
Op-ed: Justice Reform Funders: Stop the Poverty Pimping
If You’re Really Behind Grassroots Movements, Get Out of the Way By Lorenzo Jones Over the past 10–15 years, the political landscape in the U.S. has undergone monumental change with the rise of a broader, deeper movement to end mass incarceration. During this period, local, state-based movements have expanded through national developments including the rise […]
Statement In Response Announcement of the New DOC Commissioner and the Ongoing Crisis on Rikers Island
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, December 16th, 2021 Contact: Yonah Zeitz, yonah@katalcenter.org | (347) 201-2768 Follow on Twitter @katalcenter The Katal Center for Equity, Health, and Justice Responds to Announcement of the New DOC Commissioner and the Ongoing Crisis on Rikers Island Statement from Henry Robinson, member of Katal Center: “It is undeniable that the conditions […]
op-ed: “this is your brain on racism”: reflections on the anti-drug abuse act of 1986
By gabriel sayegh This week marks the 35th anniversary of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, which Congress passed four months after the death of University of Maryland star forward Len Bias. The Boston Celtics had just drafted him, and it was widely reported that he died from using crack. That was wrong: Bias had been […]
statement from leadership of the #lessismoreny coalition on sen. tedisco’s shameful and dishonest op-ed
**MEDIA ADVISORY** October 18, 2021 Contact: Yonah Zeitz – 347-201-2768 yonah@katalcenter.org, Follow online: #LessIsMoreNY | www.lessismoreny.org Statement from Leadership of the #LessIsMoreNY Coalition on Sen. Tedisco’s Shameful and Dishonest Op-ed New York, NY: Over the weekend, Republican New York State Senator James Tedisco published an op-ed filled with more lies about criminal justice reform and the Less is More […]
op-ed: transforming parole through racial justice and decarceration
By Imani Webb-Smith, Senior Policy Manager at Katal Center for Equity, Health, and Justice Until very recently, to be on parole supervision in New York State was to be subject to the country’s most deliberately dizzying array of cruel, capricious, racist policies and practices – both codified and de facto,[1] that succeeded only in further ensnaring […]
