Kalief Browder’s Suicide Brought Changes to Rikers. Now It Has Led to a $3 Million Settlement.

New York City has agreed to pay $3.3 million to settle a lawsuit on behalf of the estate of Kalief Browder, the young Bronx man whose detention on Rikers Island became a symbol of the breakdown in criminal justice in New York and fueled the drive to ban solitary confinement for youths in the city’s jails.

Mnr. Browder, wat 16 years old when he was arrested in 2010 and accused of stealing a backpack, was detained on Rikers Island for three years — about two of which were spent in solitary confinement — without being tried or convicted of a crime. In 2015, op die ouderdom van 22, Hy hanged himself at his parents’ home in the Bronx. Lees meer…