Katal in the News

Albany Lawmakers Reach Compromise on Faster Trials Beth Fertig via WNYC News | June 7. 2017 Kalief Browder was arrested when he was 16 years old in 2010 for allegedly stealing a backpack. He insisted…

By Brett Samuels via The Daily Gazette Harry Brust looked up from the chair next to his prison cot, its sheet neatly tucked under the mattress, and recalled his first attempt to shake addiction. His l…

By David Meyer via StreetsBlog NYC As of May 15, 5,137 people have been arrested for fare evasion this year. Criminal justice advocates gathered outside City Hall this morning to call on Mayor de Bla…

Criminal Justice Advocates Call on de Blasio to Provide Discount Fares for Poor New Yorkers As of May 15, 5,137 people have been arrested for fare evasion this year. By David Meyer | Ma…

by Thomas Breen via the New Haven Independent The police get a call from Walmart that somebody has been caught shoplifting. The officers run the offender’s criminal history, and quickly find out th…

Non-Jail Program For Low-Level Offenders Pitched In The Hill by THOMAS BREEN | May 10, 2017   The police get a call from Walmart that somebody has been caught shoplifting. The officers…

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – A traveling exhibit modeling a pop-up “safer consumption space” was set up in Lafayette Square Wednesday afternoon. Buffalo is one of ten cities on the traveling exhibit�…

ALBANY — A group of health care professionals, public health experts and advocates believe one answer to New York’s opioid epidemic could be safer consumption spaces, which allow drug users to…

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) – In response to New York’s drug overdose crisis, a group of healthcare professionals and public health advocates are launching a statewide campaign, calling for safe injecti…