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Watch: Shocking video shows teenager’s horrifying 3-year incarceration at Rikers Island

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Post by Guest Fri Apr 24, 2015 7:05 am

Ten days before his 16th birthday, Kalief Browder was arrested in the Bronx on charges of stealing a backpack. Browder would spend the next three years at Rikers Island, New York City’s massive jail complex, awaiting trial. He spent two of those years in solitary confinement. His case was eventually dismissed.

Internal surveillance videos obtained by The New Yorker show that Browder’s time awaiting trial in prison was treacherous. One video, from 2012, shows a guard slamming Browder to the ground while he is handcuffed.


http://www.rawstory.com/2015/04/watch-shocking-video-shows-teenagers-horrifying-3-year-incarceration-at-rikers-island/



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Post by Original Quill Fri Apr 24, 2015 5:38 pm

Nemesis wrote:Ten days before his 16th birthday, Kalief Browder was arrested in the Bronx on charges of stealing a backpack. Browder would spend the next three years at Rikers Island, New York City’s massive jail complex, awaiting trial. He spent two of those years in solitary confinement. His case was eventually dismissed.

Internal surveillance videos obtained by The New Yorker show that Browder’s time awaiting trial in prison was treacherous. One video, from 2012, shows a guard slamming Browder to the ground while he is handcuffed.


http://www.rawstory.com/2015/04/watch-shocking-video-shows-teenagers-horrifying-3-year-incarceration-at-rikers-island/

Video is on the link

Classic case of money and injustice in the criminal justice system. Bail is only available for the wealthy.

Most jurisdictions have a Speedy Trial Act for this reason.

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