Kalief Browder

Jay Z's Prison Reform Docuseries Premieres This March On Spike Tv

... Kalief Browder Story will debut the first of six parts on Wednesday, March 1 at 10 p.m. ET/PT. The project hones in on the issues of police brutality and prison reform in the story of Browder, who was arrested at the age of 16 for allegedly stealing a backpack. He spent three years on Rikers Island — two of which were in solitary confinement — though he was never convicted. Browder took his own life after his release on June 6, 2015. The Kalief Browder Story chronicles the subject through archival footage, cinematic recreations, and interviews with family, friends, politicians, and social reformers. “Kalief Browder is a modern-day prophet; his story a failure of the judicial process,” Jay Z, who produced the docuseries with The Weinstein Co.’s Harvey Weinstein, said in a statement. “A young man, and I emphasize young man, who lost his life because of a broken system. His tragedy has brought atrocities to light, and now we must confront the issues and events that occurred so other young men can have a chance at justice.”. “The story on the evening news created a lot of attention and action around Kalief Browder, but it wasn’t the whole story,” director Jenner ...

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New Docuseries Highlights How The System Failed Kalief Browder

... inmates. Three years later, his case was dismissed. “[Browder’s life] had every single example of systematic failure on behalf of poor, powerless and for the most part black and brown people in the United States,” Furst said. He argued that Browder’s situation could ultimately be traced back to poverty and economic inequality. “I think justice is money, unfortunately, in America. If you have money, you get justice. If you don’t have money, you experience vast amounts of injustice,” he said. Browder’s story has become a devastating symbol of the criminal justice system can impact America’s most vulnerable citizens. His predicament was complicated and messy, but as the docuseries shows, the systems that should have helped him, ultimately cracked under the pressure. “Kalief represents everything,” Furst said. “And ...

The Kalief Browder Story

... - 2017 Sundance Film Festival at The Marc Theatre on Jan. 25, 2017, in Park City, Utah. (Photo: Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images for Sundance Film Festival). 214 CONNECT TWEET LINKEDIN 2 COMMENTEMAILMORE. The bare facts about Kalief Browder’s experience with the criminal justice system are awful enough. Arrested at 16 after being accused of robbery. Locked up on Rikers Island for more than three years while waiting for his day in court. Beaten while jailed. Kept in solitary confinement for two of those years. About two years after the charges were dropped and he was released, Browder committed suicide. The  New Yorker chronicled Browder’s ordeal with an in-depth story in 2014. Now Shawn Carter (a.k.a. Jay Z), in collaboration with Weinstein Television, is premiering a six-part documentary at 10 p.m. Wednesday on Spike that details how a teen who always insisted on his innocence wasn’t just lost within the process, but brutalized and forever scarred by it. “Time: The Kalief Browder ...

Coba Battles Those Who Want To Close Rikers Island

... Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association has something to say about that this election season. In January, the union started sending postcards to Dromm’s constituents criticizing him for wanting to close the prison and not paying proper attention to crime occurring in his district. “The union’s message is simple: If elected officials want to grand stand and score political points off Correction Officers, we will expose the real issues facing the citizens in their districts whom they are elected to represent,” read one of the postcards. “Why isn’t Council Member Dromm as concerned about crime in our district as he is about crime at Rikers Island? Isn’t it time our Council Member focused on us?”. According to a report in the Queens Chronicle, the mailer cited crimes in the 110 th and 115 th precincts in Northern Queens—Dromm’s district—stating that 40 percent of all robberies and 37 percent of felony assaults take place in those two precincts. “This flyer illustrates the twisted logic and misplaced priorities of a failed leadership desperate to change the subject from its legacy of corruption,” read part ...

Kalief Browder's Family Was About To Settle His Lawsuit

... suicide, hanging himself with an air conditioning cord out the window of the family’s Bronx home. The wrongful death lawsuit alleges that Kalief was tortured and beaten during the three years he spent at Rikers, leaving him unable to cope mentally even after he was finally released. “Once a person commits a crime, and they know justly that they did the crime, they can come back from that,” former Rikers Corrections Officer Gary Heyward told Buzz Feed News. “In his situation he did nothing wrong, that’s a tougher situation to handle — I did nothing wrong, and I’m going through the same hostile lifestyle.”. Heyward, who was fired from Rikers for selling drugs, sneaking contraband into the jail, and pimping out female officers — crimes he served two years in prison for — appears along with other current and former Rikers COs in a new documentary, TIME: The Kalief Browder Story, which premieres on Spike TV on March 1. “If you went through so much, only to find ...

Mother Of Kalief Browder, The Teen Cruelly Held At Rikers, Dies Of A 'broken Heart

... of the criminal justice system that led to her son's death. 6.6 k. NEW YORK ― Venida Browder, a civil rights activist whose late son Kalief Browder became a symbol of America’s deeply broken criminal justice system, died of complications from a heart attack on Friday, her lawyer confirmed. She was 63. “I think she literally died of a broken heart,” attorney Paul Prestia told The Huffington Post. In June 2015, her 22-year-old son Kalief died by suicide in her Bronx, New York, home. “Ma, I can’t take it anymore,” Kalief told his mother shortly before his death. It was the second time that Venida Browder’s son was taken from her. Kalief was just 16 years old in 2010 when he was sent to New York City’s notorious Rikers Island jail on a robbery charge. That charge would ultimately be dismissed, but not before Kalief languished behind bars for three years, with his family unable to pay his bail. He maintained his innocence and refused to take a plea deal ...

Chicago Justice,' 'kalief Browder Story

... sleep soundly afterward. Watch the second and you may want to swear off law-and-order procedurals for a while, knowing the systems they depict are much more broken than any case of the week can fix. In fairness, I haven't seen this first Chicago Justice episode, the third hour in a three-part crossover Wednesday that includes producer Dick Wolf's Chicago Fire and Chicago P. D. The screener NBC made available was for Sunday's time-slot premiere, which involves the investigation of the death of a suspect in custody, and it feels like a good fit for the franchise. (The network also plans to air a third episode at 10 p.m. Tuesday, to take advantage of its freshman hit This Is Us as a lead-in.). Philip Winchester (Strike Back) stars in Justice as Peter Stone, a hard-driving prosecutor whose mouthful of a title is deputy chief of the special prosecutions bureau in the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office, where the big boss, the more politically minded state's attorney, Mark ...

Compelling Tale Of A Tainted Tv Legend

... whose life unravels when he is accused of raping a teenager on the set of a movie some 25 years ago. Coltrane perfectly captures the essence of a beloved has-been, a man everybody seems to remember from their childhood, a catchphrase-dispensing legend who launched a thousand repeats on late-night television. An obese man who walks with a cane, he's first seen at a gala event presenting a lifetime achievement award to his comedy partner. He's both esteemed and slightly invisible, a symbol of the media's past in a roomful of go-getters. He'd be pitiful if he weren't so famous, and presumably rich. "Treasure" does a great job of showing how accusations turn this "harmless" old man into a notorious figure. Gradually his beloved and devout wife (Julie Walters), drug-addicted daughter (Andrea Riseborough), fans and the audience begin to wonder just how much they can know about Finchley, or for that matter, anyone. "Treasure" was inspired by the posthumous investigations of child abuse concerning famous British television personality Jimmy Savile. American audiences ...

Kalief Browder's Sister Remembers Him As 'normal Kid,' But Rikers Changed That

... paranoia seeped into his interactions with his own family. She said he would pick fights with his mother, Venida, the one person who stood by him through the entire ordeal. The night before he took his life, Kalief seemed to have lost all hope, Nicole said. “One day he told my mom. ‘I can’t take it no more,’” Nicole said. The next day Venida Browder found her son hanging from a noose he had fashioned from ripped bed sheets , a technique he had learned and attempted several times during his time at Rikers, The New Yorker reported. The Browder family’s $20 million wrongful lawsuit against New York City was put on hold when Kalief’s mother  died in 2016 , but Nicole believes true justice for her brother has little to do with monetary compensation. “Justice to me. is when people start to admit when they are wrong. An apology. Something my mother died [for] and wanted,” she said. Indeed, Nicole has a grave warning about the predatory criminal justice system. “It needs to change, because you know what? You’re going to hear this story again if it [doesn’t] change.”. “Time: The Kalief Browder Story” airs on Spike TV March 1 at 10 p.m. ET/PT. If you or someone you know ...