Katal in the News

OP-ED: Mayor Adams talks about closing Rikers while working to keep it open Amsterdam News Author: By gabriel sayegh 6/6/2024 Last month, news broke that the city’s plan to close […]

Yonah Zeitz, via NY Daily News With time running out in the 2024 New York State legislative session, lawmakers in Albany should act to address the crisis on Rikers and […]

By: Matt Troutman, via Patch NEW YORK CITY — Accusations of rampant sexual against hundreds of women by guards in Rikers Island that led to a combined $14.7 billion in […]

By Cassandra Day Via Greenwich Time MIDDLETOWN — A social justice organization wants to turn a rarely used park in the North End into a farm run by youth and […]

By: Rebecca C. Lewis via City and State New York Sitting in the lobby of the Louis Armstrong Center in Corona, Queens, in mid-February, Assembly Member Jeffrion Aubry looked for […]

By: Ashley Mastronardi Via News 12 Bronx Danielle Shanks is speaking out about schizophrenia and Rikers. “I’ve raised my son to be this outstanding man … as a mother to […]

By Alexander Lekhtman, Via Filter Magazine The New York City Council has overwhelmingly approved a package of police and jail reforms, in defiance of Mayor Eric Adams (D). Now, New […]

By Max Burns, Opinion Contributed via The Hill Back in his 2020 run for the White House, Joe Biden won over the skittish left in part because of his willingness […]

By: Erin White via 1010 WINS/Audacy A detainee on Rikers Island died on Thursday after collapsing during a basketball game, marking the first New York City jail death of 2024, […]

By: Elizabeth Kim and Jessy Edwards via Gothamist.com Mayor Eric Adams is pledging to shutter the long-troubled Rikers Island jail complex but recently outlined a number of challenges that could ham…

By: Alexander Lekhtman via Filter Magazine On December 14, a federal judge held the New York City Department of Correction in contempt of court, as Gothamist reported, for failing to inform…

By: Margaret Kimberley via Black Agenda Report Over the weekend, our lead organizer Melanie Dominguez joined Black Agenda radio to discuss Mayor Eric Adams’s proposed 5% budget cuts to city [&hellip…