justice system failure

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Teen Thrown In Violent New York Prison For Years Without Ever Having Been Convicted

 

“Bronx resident Kalief Browder was walking home from a party when he was abruptly arrested by New York City police officers on May 14, 2010. A complete stranger said Browder had robbed him a few weeks earlier and, consequently, changed the 16-year-old’s life forever.

 

Browder was imprisoned for three years before the charges were dropped in June 2013, according to a WABC-TV Eyewitness News investigation.

 

At the time of the teen’s arrest, Browder’s family was unable to pay the $10,000 bail. He was placed in the infamously violent Rikers Island correctional facility, where he remained until earlier this year.”

 

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

Kudos to this man for not taking the plea deal. The plea deal is bullsh*t that would have given him a permanent record making it nearly impossible for him to get a job at most companies for the rest of his life. #NewJimCrow 

 

And remember, this happened in the “Freedom Loving” United States. Freedom for who?

 

@getgln

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Why are black murder victims put on trial?

LZ Granderson says if a black man said he shot an unarmed white teenage girl in “self defense” he would be in jail. Black victims don’t get the same justice

See on www.cnn.com

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Incarceration in America: The Inside Story

 

“BOOKD profiles, The New Jim Crow, legal scholar Michelle Alexander’s breakthrough book about the rise of mass incarceration in America. Alexander agues that “by targeting black men through the War on Drugs and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control.

See as a Yale Law Professor, Community Activists, and hip hop legend Talib Kweli debate and discuss this provocative and important book.”
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The 40 Year Solitary Confinement of Herman Wallace

“The injustice of his conviction speaks volumes about how broken our criminal justice system is, but his solitary confinement says even more about who we are as a society. The freedom of Mr. Wallace and so many others still being held in such circumstances is not all that has been lost through this cruel and unusual form of punishment.”
See on www.racefiles.com