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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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Kenyatta Muzzanni: Connecticut proposals would criminalize young people in insidious new ways
By Kenyatta Muzzani Via Hartford Courant In the past two years, Connecticut residents pushed for and won major reforms of the criminal legal system, including passing legislation on police a…
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connecticut update – may 13, 2021
In this issue… A #CutShutINVEST Community Conversation CT Statewide Criminal Justice Reform Call Ending Prison Gerrymandering in CT A #CutShutINVEST Community Conversation We had a warm and impa…
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connecticut update – april 29, 2021
In this issue… Tell Gov. Lamont: Keep CJTS Closed and #CutShutINVEST #CutShutINVEST Community Conversation CT Statewide Criminal Justice Reform Call Tell Gov. Lamont: Keep CJTS Closed and #CutSh…
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connecticut update – april 15, 2021
In this issue… Katal Connecticut Update Pushing Back on the Reopening of a Youth Prison Connecticut BLOC Roundtable Meeting Katal Connecticut Update Welcome to our new bi-weekly Katal Connecticu…
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middletown press: child advocates decry idea of housing migrant children at former ct detention facility as ‘step backward’
Child advocates decry idea of housing migrant children at former CT detention facility as ‘step backward’ By Cassandra Day | via Middletown Press April 13, 2021 Several advocac…
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how the drug war is propelling the overdose crisis in new haven
By Keith Brown and Lorenzo Jones Over the last few weeks in New Haven, Connecticut, nearly 100 people have experienced an overdose and other bad symptoms from K2 or “spice.” […]
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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 [&hel…
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how the heroin epidemic differs in communities of color
PBS Most of the media attention in the current nationwide heroin epidemic has focused on the uptick in overdose deaths among suburban, white, middle-class users — many of whom turned […]