Last fall, I wrote about a young man named Kalief Browder,
who spent three years on Rikers Island without being convicted of a
crime. He had been arrested in the spring of 2010, at age sixteen, for a
robbery he insisted he had not committed. Then he spent more than one
thousand days on Rikers waiting for a trial that never happened. During
that time, he endured about two years in solitary confinement, where he
attempted to end his life several times. Once, in February, 2012, he
ripped his bedsheet into strips, tied them together to create a noose,
and tried to hang himself from the light fixture in his cell.
In
November of 2013, six months after he left Rikers, Browder attempted
suicide again. This time, he tried to hang himself at home, from a
bannister, and he was taken to the psychiatric ward at St. Barnabas
Hospital, not far from his home in the Bronx. When I met him, in the
spring of 2014, he appeared to be more stable.READ MORE:http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/kalief-browder-1993-2015
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