Kalief Browder: A Decade Later
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Kalief Browder was jailed at Rikers Island on the age of sixteen; he spent three years locked up with out ever being convicted of against the law, and far of that point was spent in solitary confinement. In 2014, the New Yorker employees author Jennifer Gonnerman wrote about Browder and the failings of the criminal-justice system that his case uncovered: unconscionable delays within the courts, extreme use of solitary confinement, teen-agers being charged for crimes as adults, brutality on the a part of correction officers. Ten years in the past, on June 6, 2015, Browder died by suicide. On The New Yorker Radio Hour, Gonnerman shares excerpts from the interviews she recorded with Browder, during which he described the psychological toll of spending years in a twelve-by-seven cell.
This section initially aired on June 3, 2016.
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