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Katal Op-Ed in The Amsterdam News: Mayor Adams Talks About Closing Rikers While Working to Keep it Ope
The Amsterdam News Mayor Adams Talks About Closing Rikers While Working to Keep it Open by gabriel sayegh Thursday, June 6, 2024 Last month, news broke that the city’s plan […]
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Katal Op-ed in the NY Daily News: NYS must boost its prison watchdog
NY Daily News By Yonah Zeitz 6/2/2024 With time running out in the 2024 New York State legislative session, lawmakers in Albany should act to address the crisis on Rikers […]
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Katal 2023 Stewardship Letter
January 8, 2024 Friends, For Katal, entering 2024 feels a bit like being shot out of a cannon. The challenges ahead are daunting. The world is going through convulsions. And […]
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Katal 2022 Stewardship Letter
3 January 2023 Dear friends, As we step into 2023 and the fights ahead, we’re also reflecting on the past year – the challenges we faced, the accomplishments, some losses […]
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What are technical violations of probation and parole?
When people are accused of technical violations of their probation or parole, the punitive consequences are often severe and life-altering. But what are technical violations and why should states hand…
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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 [&hellip…
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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 […]
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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 […]
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op-ed: born an organizer, trained to be a community organizer: reflections on katal at 5
By Lorenzo Jones I was recently interviewed by a researcher from the University of California, San Francisco. The interviewer asked me, “What brought you to community organizing?” I told him…
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video – #lessismoreny – a musical testimony by spoke and feather
Emily & Robert of Spoke and Feather, sing musical testimony set to the tune of ‘One Day More’ from Les Misérables, with special lyrics about how #LessIsMoreNY will change the lives [&hel…
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video – why does new york need #lessismoreny?
There are approximately 35,000 people under active parole supervision in New York State who at almost any time can see their efforts to successfully rejoin the workforce and reintegrate into [……
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a prison public health crisis in connecticut
A Prison Public Health Crisis in Connecticut #FreeThemNowCT By Lorenzo Jones For months, medical experts have emphasized that practicing physical distancing is a critical factor in…
