Over the last two weeks, Americans have revisited the tragic details of the death of 22-year-old Kalief Browder. The documentary series “Time: The Kalief Browder Story,” airs its third of six episodes ...
*The news of 22-year-old Kalief Browder’s suicide on June 6 forced us to pause and examine New York City’s shady court and prison system. Browder, who was incarcerated at age 16 in 2010 for an alleged ...
[griojw id=”AriE1XX2″ playerid=”BqxyiSkR”] Even after Virgil Lee Adams was found not guilty of committing a burglary, he sat in jail for Three years after the ...
“Another Wasted Life.” That’s the name of a remarkable new song by the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Grammy-winning artist Rhiannon Giddens. She released a video of the song on October 2 to mark ...
NEW YORK — New York City has agreed to pay $3.3 million to settle a lawsuit on behalf of the estate of Kalief Browder, the young Bronx man whose detention on Rikers Island became a symbol of the ...
NEW YORK — For many in New York, the inequities in the cash bail system were crystallized when a Bronx teenager named Kalief Browder spent three years on Rikers Island because his family could not ...
The city of New York has agreed to a $3.3 million settlement with the family of Kalief Browder, who spent three years at Rikers Island prison without being convicted of a crime and killed himself in ...
*”TIME: The Kalief Browder Story” is a compelling, six-part documentary event series that tells the story of a young African-American male who spent three years on Rikers Island without ever being ...
Finally today, in recent years, we've heard a number of stories about the ways the criminal justice system has failed someone or some people. It's always painful, and it's always troubling. But it's ...
NEW YORK (AP) — The death of a 22-year-old man who hanged himself after spending three years as a teen jailed without trial should spur New Yorkers to push for bail reform, City Council members said ...