Kalief Browder should have celebrated his 30th birthday this past Thursday, May 25. Instead, he’s forever remembered as the teenage boy held on Rikers Island over a missing backpack.
The Bronx-based Browder was 16 years old when he entered NYC Department of Corrections’ custody; he was detained for three years at the jail complex after maintaining his innocence and refusing a guilty plea. Browder’s family was priced out of posting his initial $3,000 bail. His charges were ultimately dropped. He took his life on June 6, 2015, roughly two years after his release.
Sweeping reforms were made in Browder’s name ranging from the city’s end of solitary confinement for detained young New Yorkers to then-Pres. Barack Obama’s ban of the practice for federally-imprisoned juveniles. But attendees don’t want anyone in city jails to go through what Browder did. His brother, Akeem, told the“The only thing we can do is continuously remind the government of New York City that we’re not going to forget Kalief,” said Akeem Browder.
“Everywhere else that has solitary confinement, we call them out. Americans call other countries out…for doing the exact same thing we continue to do here.”
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