The Katal Center
Katal develops intergenerational leadership and organizing capacity to build community-based power and win systemic change for equity, health, and justice.
Our Work
New York organizing campaigns
We’re organizing in NYC and across the state – #ShutRikers #CutShutInvestNY
Membership
Through organizing together we can build and exercise collective power to advance equity, health, and justice.
Trainings and Coaching
We provide training in community organizing, advocacy, and more.
Katal in the news
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N.Y. advocates call on Hochul to fully staff state’s jail and prison watchdog agency
Prison reform advocates say Gov. Kathy Hochul isn’t holding up her end of the bargain when it comes to appointing commissioners to fully staff the State Commission of Correction (SCOC), which is New…
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Prisoner advocacy groups push for more funding
The Katal Center for Equity, Health and Justice is calling on Gov. Kathy Hochul to restore $3 million in funding to the nonprofit Correctional Association of New York, which monitors conditions inside…
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State prison deaths grow in recent oversight findings
This year marks the deadliest start for state prisons in at least six years, according to findings recently reported by the watchdog Correctional Association of New York (CANY). The findings account…
