what’s cooking at katal: a letter from katal’s co-executive directors

As we expand our work in Connecticut and New York to end mass incarceration and the drug war, we’re building new partnerships and pivoting to tackle new challenges. To gear up for legislative advocacy in 2018, in the months ahead we’re pulling together a series of events in both CT and NY related to bail […]

city heads west for a policing lead

New Haven Independent Eleven New Haven officials and activists flew to Seattle to seek an effective alternative to locking up street hookers and nonviolent drug abusers. They come home convinced they found it. At least three of the mission’s members said they did. Now they plan to bring the idea to downtown and the Hill […]

taking the lead

kboo Hosted by: Doug McVay Produced by: KBOO Program: Prison Pipeline Air date: Mon, 09/05/2016 – 6:30pm to 7:00pm Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) is a pre-booking diversion pilot program. It was originally developed with the community to address low-level drug and prostitution crimes in the Belltown neighborhood in Seattle and the Skyway area of unincorporated King County. The program […]

albany becomes 1st jurisdiction on east coast, 3rd in nation to launch innovative, evidence-based law enforcement assisted diversion (lead) program

For Immediate Release March 31, 2016 Contact: Albany Police Department: Steven Smith (518) 889-9446 Center for Law and Justice: Dr. Alice Green (518) 427-8361 LEAD National Support Bureau: gabriel sayegh (646) 335-2264 Albany Becomes 1st Jurisdiction on East Coast, 3rd in Nation to Launch Innovative, Evidence-Based Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) Program With Support from Albany Medical […]

city and county of albany’s innovative law enforcement assisted diversion (lead) program will launch april 1st

For Immediate Release March 30, 2016 Contact: Albany Police Department: Steven Smith (518) 889-9446 Center for Law and Justice: Dr. Green (518) 427-8361 LEAD National Support Bureau: gabriel sayegh (646) 335-2264 City and County of Albany’s Innovative Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) Program Will Launch April 1st Albany Medical Center Announces Innovative Investment of New […]