New York City will pay $3 million to the family of Kalief Browder. Browder was 16 years old when he was arrested and accused of robbing a man in 2010, a crime he denied committing. He spent three years in Rikers Island, half of that time in solitary confinement, without being convicted and awaiting a […]
On any given day, there are many sad stories about young black men receiving prison sentences that they didn’t deserve and the horrifying conditions of the prisons where they are relegated to serve out their sentences. The saddest instance of this issue in recent memory, centers on the case of Bronx, New York teenager Kalief […]