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Parole and sentencing reform left out of omnibus prison reform bill
Written by Rebecca C. Lewis at City and State 6/11/2025 In the wake of Robert Brooks’ death at the hands of corrections officers at MarcyCorrectional Facility late last year, lawmakers […]
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#ShutRikers Phone Zap
Event Date: Wednesday, October 2th from 12:00pm-1:00pm Location: Virtual via Zoom RSVP here to attend! We will be calling city council members to ask them to take action to help […]
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Speedy Trial Law
Fact Sheet – Speedy Trial Law
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Katal Corner
By Kenyatta Muzzanni via Northend Agent’s The Katal Center for Equity, Health, and Justice is a grassroots, community-based organization devoted to developing the people, policies, institutions…
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Community Conversation: Harm Reduction in New Haven
Join us Wednesday, July 31 from 6:00 – 7:45 pm at the New Haven Free Public Library (Ives Branch) for a Community Conversation on Harm Reduction in New Haven! During the conversation, we w…
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As ct legislature convenes for 2021, impacted people & community groups call on lawmakers to cut correctional populations, shut down prisons, and invest the savings into communities most impacted by mass incarceration
Posted on January 06, 2021 Wednesday, January 6th, 2020 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Kenyatta Thompson, kthompson@katalcenter.org | (860) 937-6094 Sumeet Sharma, ssharma@katalcenter.org | (6…
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CT Statewide Criminal Justice Reform Call
Join us Thursday, March 4th from 11 – 12 p.m. for our CT Statewide Criminal Justice Reform Call via Zoom.us The goals of the Monthly CT Statewide Criminal Justice Reform […]
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COVID-19 in CT Prisons & Jails: #FreeThemNowCT Fact Sheet
As Connecticut continues to confront COVID-19, Governor Ned Lamont and state officials have failed to develop a comprehensive plan to tackle the crisis of the novel coronavirus in jails and prisons…
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#LessIsMoreNY Info Session
Last month, lawmakers returned to session where they took up several criminal justice bills in their committees. However, many important criminal justice reform bills that community members have been…
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Jlusa & Katal Teleconference, Notes to the Field
On Tuesday January 8th, 2019, JustLeadershipUSA and the Katal Center for Health, Equity, and Justice held a teleconference for our philanthropic supporters and our partners in New York to share ne…
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Nyc Katal Center Monthly Meeting
In this monthly meeting we will discuss our next steps moving forward now that Rikers Island has been voted to be closed in favor of the borough based jails system, […]
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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…
