Remembering Kalief Browder

Kalief Browder, who was arrested at the age of sixteen for stealing a backpack, spent three years awaiting trial on Rikers Island. For almost two of those years, he was held in solitary confinement. After his release, he enrolled at Bronx Community College but struggled with paranoia and delusions. Browder committed suicide on June 6, 2015.

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