Kalief Browder

Dargeçit Kalief Browder (1993-2015), an American student, was arrested in 2010 at age 16 for stealing a backpack. He spent three years at Rikers Island, New York’s main prison – without ever having been found guilty. He spent over a thousand days in prison, over 700 in solitary confinement.

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In the US Constitution
, the  Sixth Amendment states:
“the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial”
But in the Bronx, Browder’s part of New York, there are not enough judges or money to carry out the Constitution.
About 96% of those accused of a felony in the Bronx plead guilty in exchange for a shorter sentence. There is no trial. Those who maintain their innocence – and whose families’s cannot afford bail or who are held without bail – are sent to prison where they can wait up to five years.

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Mistreatment, Abuse and Murder of the Mentally Ill & Others at Rikers Island “Correctional” Facility

 

Where was the “long arm of justice” when it was needed to protect Bradley Ballard, Ronald “Knowledge” Spears, Jerome Murdough and countless others who’ve been killed at New York’s Rikers Island?

 

Source: ushypocrisy.com