Man from New Yorker article about Rikers commits suicide

[Anonymous]

I have not been able to forget about this story after I read it in the New Yorker. I hope his family finds peace and the system is reformed. This is just so sad.

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/kalief-browder-1993-2015

[Anonymous]

Horrible awful all kinds of injustice.

[Anonymous]

We treat children horribly in the criminal justice system. But nobody cares.

[Anonymous]

This is heart breaking.

[Anonymous]

I hope millions of people learn of this.

Not sure what that would even do...

[Anonymous]

How is this allowed in the United States?

IMPRISONED FOR 2+ YEARS WITHOUT BEING CHARGED WITH A CRIME?

I mean- what the fuck?! How is this happening?!

[Anonymous]

So awful.

[Anonymous]

Breaks my heart. Every life is ?o valuable and we don't realize that. Glad that he got to see the better side of humanity albeit for a short time.

[Anonymous]

Just horrible. The poor, poor child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How is this allowed in the United States?

IMPRISONED FOR 2+ YEARS WITHOUT BEING CHARGED WITH A CRIME?

I mean- what the fuck?! How is this happening?!

Seriously messed up, but not the only one.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/06/17212442-man-left-in-solitary-confinement-for-2-years-gets-155-million-settlement

[Anonymous]

I didn't watch the embedded links to the prison beatings. I wouldn't be able to sleep tonight. If we were only kind to each other the outcome would be so different.

[Anonymous]

This one just hurts so much. There are so many more like him out there.

[Anonymous]

I think it would help if prisons weren't for profit. What a terrible place to want to make money

[Anonymous]

How can the Prison Guards live with themselves?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it would help if prisons weren't for profit. What a terrible place to want to make money

Rubio is funded by the prison industry.

I could be wrong, but I don't think NYC has privatized prisons.