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OP-ED: Mothers Call on Gov. Hochul to Sign the Jail and Prison Oversight Bill
By Waheedah Abdul-Mateen and Ziyadah Amatul-Matin We write this together as two mothers, and as a mother and daughter, whose lives have been irreversibly shaped by New York State’s prison [&hell…
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Katal New York Update — June 13, 2025
In This Issue: -NY Legislative Passes Omnibus Bill, Which Overhauls the State Commission of Correction -June NY Statewide Criminal Justice Reform Call Recap -Weekly Pro-Democracy Phone Zaps -Katal In…
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Katal New York Update — March 20, 2024
In This Issue: -NY Legislative Passes Omnibus Bill, Which Overhauls the State Commission of Correction -June NY Statewide Criminal Justice Reform Call Recap -Weekly Pro-Democracy Phone Zaps -Katal In…
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About #LessIsMoreNY and Parole Reform in New York State – Fact Sheet
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Bail Reform in New York — Fact Sheet
On April 1, 2019, after years of work by grassroots groups and advocates across New York, lawmakers in Albany passed a historic slate of criminal justice reform bills to address […]
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Supporting Letter – #LessIsMoreNY Act
#LessIsMoreNY is a statewide coalition of community groups, service providers, and public safety experts working together to pass the Less Is More: Community Supervision Revocation Reform Act. To…
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#CutShutInvest Scissors
Previous Next The #CutShutInvest scissors are large-scale cardboard placards that double as posters and as a toolkit for the creation of agitprop to be used in demonstrations. The placard features [&h…
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New York’s Less Is More Act: A Status Report on Implementation
This report addresses the following: • A summary of the main provisions of the Less Is More Act • Progress and challenges with respect to implementation so far • Next steps and recommendations
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Fact Sheet – #FreeThemNowNY
COVID-19 in New York Prisons and Jails: #FreeThemNowNY As New York State continues to confront the worst public health crisis in the last century, Governor Andrew Cuomo and state officials [&helli…
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making sense of the fight over nyc jails
Making Sense of the Fight over NYC Jails Oct 10, 2019 By gabriel sayegh The fight to close Rikers is reaching a boiling point again. Next week, the New York […]
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making sense of bail reform in nys, part 2
Read Making Sense of Bail Reform in New York State, Part 1 here. PDF version of Making Sense of Bail Reform in New York State, Part 2 [for print], here. What Happened? Making Sense of […]
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making sense of bail reform in nys, part 1
By gabriel sayegh Download the PDF/print version of this article. Read Part 2 of this 2019 series on bail reform in New York State. To make sense of bail reform […]
