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Ex-Rikers inmate who was beaten in jail commits suicide

Posted on June 8, 2015 by The Soul Brother

By Bill Hutchinson A Bronx man who spent three years as a teen in Rikers Island enduring beatings by guards and inmates and long stints in solitary confinement without ever being convicted has committed suicide. Kalief Browder, 21, used an … Continue reading →

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Three Years on Rikers Without Trial

Posted on April 24, 2015 by The Soul Brother

By Jennifer Gonnerman In the early hours of Saturday, May 15, 2010, ten days before his seventeenth birthday, Kalief Browder and a friend were returning home from a party in the Belmont section of the Bronx. They walked along Arthur … Continue reading →

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