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 […]
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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 […]
She died from a broken heart. Venida Browder, the mother of Kalief Browder, who suffered emotional and physical abuse in Rikers Island which led to his later suicide, died of complications from a heart attack on Sunday. She was 63. Paul Prestia, Browder’s lawyer, remembered her as a “woman of incredible grace and compassion […]
Hov is producing a docuseries about the story of Kalief Browder, the Bronx high school student who killed himself in 2015 after being held for three years on Rikers Island.
Jamycheal Mitchell, who had a history of mental illness, was found dead in a Portsmouth, Virginia jail cell on August 19.
Reading about the suicide of Kalief Browder is heartbreaking. His story is one of many tragedies that moved me to drive to Albany last week,…