Elected officials today pointed to the death by suicide of Kalief Browder, a man who was jailed at Rikers Island as a teen while awaiting a trial that never happened, as a reason to press forward with reforms at the infamous jail
New York City jails can be fixed. It will take time. It will take money. And the recent investments announced by Mayor Bill de Blasio and the changes requested of the city's Board of Correction are only a beginning. In a series of self-congratulatory
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Kalief Browder, a 22-year-old man from New York City, took his own life this past weekend, an act that his lawyer says is directly connected to the three years of imprisonment he spent on Rikers Islan.
There was a time when Kalief Browder was given a choice: Admit to a crime he didn't commit and leave prison after already spending three years there, or maintain his innocence and potentially face 15 years behind bars. Browder chose innocence. “I felt