Rikers Island and Mental Health: Pathways Toward Community-Based Diversion and Jail Population Reduction. By Michael Rempel, Krystal Rodriguez, and Kellyann Bock (Data Collaborative for Justice); Yonah Zeitz, gabriel sayegh, and…

A security fence surrounds inmate housing at the Rikers Island correctional facility in New York, Monday, Sept. 27, 2021. Mayor Bill de Blasio visited Rikers Island after promising to observe…

Designed version, for printing – downloand PDF here. By gabriel sayegh November 2025 In 1999, more than 80,000 people took to the streets of Seattle to protest the World Trade…

A book review and response to One Week to Change the World: An Oral History of the 1999 WTO Protests by D.W. Gibson. Simon & Schuster, 368 pages. 2024. Download the…

Shut Rikers: A Brief History of Political Graphics in 15 Stickers. By Josh MacPhee and the Katal Center for Equity, Health, and Justice. Published July 2024. Part history lesson, part…

After more than 30 years as a state legislator, the assemblyman is retiring – and leaving a remarkable legacy. By gabriel sayegh Note: A shorter version of this essay was…

Excessive, Unjust, and Expensive: Fixing Connecticut’s Probation and Parole Problems. Published by the Katal Center for Equity, Health, and Justice, and the Prison Policy Initiative in May 2023, co-authored by…

Co-authored by Emily Napier Singeltary of Unchained, and gabriel sayegh of the Katal Center for Equity, Health, and Justice, on , behalf of the leadership team of the #LessIsMoreNY campaign.…

Less Is More, Revised 2022 Report – V2-1-1Download Less Is More New York: A Status Report on Implementation. By Emily Singletary, Unchained; and gabriel sayegh, Katal Center for Equity, Health,…

A summary of the history and Connecticut’s movement to end mass incarceration over more than two decades. The Scan, co-authored by Katal staff, included surveys, interviews, and data analysis. Published…

In 2018, a debate was raging in New York about bail reform. There were multiple proposals circulating, and the governor at that time, Andrew Cuomo, was seeking to thwart meaningful…

Over the last five years, an increasing number of reports, papers, and studies have been published about the causes, effects, and multiple dimensions of mass incarceration – and how to…

By gabriel sayegh 8 December 2014 In New York City yesterday, a grand jury failed to indict the officer who killed Eric Garner in Staten Island. The grand jury decision…

November 2014 By gabriel sayegh I was more than a little surprised when my friends at VOCAL-NY told me they were recognizing me at their 15th anniversary gala with the…

A drug policy reformer on why the revived debate about marijuana falls short By gabriel sayegh 6 February 2014 THE FRANTIC CALL came early in the afternoon, one day: “Can I…

Published by the ACLU and the Drug Policy Alliance in December 2013. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) set the stage for a new health-oriented policy framework to address substance use…

In April 2013, The New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM) and the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) published Blueprint for a Public Health and Safety Approach to Drug Policy. Co-authored by…

One Million Police Hours was co-authored by Harry Levine, Loren Siegel, and gabriel sayegh, and was published in March 2013 by the Drug Policy Alliance and the Marijuana Research Project.…

In 2011, Mental Health News (now Behavioral Health News) published a special issue focused on the impact of race and racism on mental health clients, practitioners, organizations, and delivery systems.…

Published in The Fortune News, the newsletter of The Fortune Society, February 2010. By gabriel sayegh New York’s draconian Rockefeller Drug Laws were finally overhauled in April 2009, in the…

Published in TwelveTen: The Magazine of the U.S. Human Rights Network, Winter/Spring 2009 February 2009 By Jasmine Tyler, gabriel sayegh, and Vera Leone “Just as Jim Crow laws were a…

By gabriel sayegh 30 November 2008 While New York reels from the most severe budget crisis since the Great Depression, Gov. David A. Paterson and the legislature are scrambling to…

By gabriel sayegh 26 April 2007 Last week, the state Assembly passed important legislation to reform the draconian Rockefeller Drug Laws. The bill, sponsored by Assemblyman Jeffrion Aubry, D-Queens, increases…

By gabriel sayegh 2 January 2007 New Yorkers are waiting to see whether Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s campaign slogan — “Day One, Everything Changes”– is genuine, or just a slogan. There are a…

Seattle Logistics Zine, May 2000. By the Seattle N30 Logistics Crew. In 1999, more than 80,000 people took to the streets of Seattle to protest the World Trade Organization (WTO)…