Time: The Kalief Browder Story (2017)

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Time: The Kalief Browder Story is a six-episode American documentary series aired on Spike on March 1 2017. The documentary recounts the story of Kalief Browder, a Bronx secondary school student who has been imprisoned for a very long time, two of them in isolation on Rikers Island, without being blamed for a lawful offense. This documentary was made by Julia Willoughby-Nason.

At 16, he was blamed for stealing a bag, and his family couldn't bear the cost of a bail of $3,000.. The series is distributed by Netflix in all countries including the United States. [1]

The Life of Kalief Browder

Browder was an adopted foster child, who was effectively born in the care of child services. CNN host Van Jones said in the series, “Kalief is someone who has been under basically state control for their whole life.”

By bringing Browder's story into a multi-part account, producers can zoom in and out on the intertwining organizations that plotted with the creator's fate. Growing up under the standard of the NYPD's racist stop-and-frisk program is a one thing. Another is the implied disparity of the cash bail conspire, which oftentimes imprisoned weak citizens who don't represent a threat to society.

Browder was captured for allegedly stealing a bag in May 2010 and put in pre-trial custody at Rikers Island for over 1,000 days, the greater part of them in isolation. His experience has been a reminder of how the criminal equity framework will separate the existences of disproportionately impoverished and black and brown Americans.

Browder kept up his honesty during his difficulty, which included every day beatings from both fellow hostages and officials, as well as, according to his account, hunger and torment. Browder could have plead guilty for wrongdoing he had been sentenced for on numerous events, yet he stayed obstinate that he didn't concede what he didn't do. In 2013, the protection dropped the charges and Browder was released without indictment or conviction.[2]

Inspired by Kalief Browder’s injustice experience

Kalief Browder

On September 23, 2012, a guard came to Browder's cell door accompany him to the showers. As seen on the footage video reveals, Browder put his hands in a slot in the door to be cuffed. The guard opened the entryway and began to manage him down the level. In the recording, Browder is by all accounts conversing with the watchman, who at that point dropped him to the ground.

The office of Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District,given an examination censuring the horrifying conditions in the adolescent jail of Rikers, portraying it as a spot that "appears to be more motivated by the Lord of the Flies any legitimate philosophy of humane detention." Browder encountered this experience during the first months he was kept there. [3]

Victim of Criminal Justice System

Browder was released on 5 June 2013. However, he was left out with the mental damage that he got from his time in jail. After his release, The New Yorker said, "I'm not all right. I'm fucked up." On June 6, 2015, he killed himself by hanging using the air conditioner cord. He was 22 years old by the time.[4]

This is the unfortunate case of a colored youth in this world, where there is no equity for those of a poor social background and ethnic community. The absurd truth of this was best represented, by Browder’s lawyer, Paul V. Prestia "When you look through the three years he's spent [in jail] and all the terrible information he's had, it's incredible that this will happen to a child in New York City. He was not tortured in a concentration camp in another world. It was right over here! ”[5]

According to Michelle Alexander's book The New Jim Crow 60 percent of the current U.S. jail population is made up of people of color. This is probably going to be ascribed to various bigoted authoritative approaches—from stop-and-frisk laws that excessively affect weak minority, to jail sentences that are profoundly inappropriate and to crimes committed.

In his interview in HuffPost Live, Browder's legal advisor, Paul Prestia, brings up an assortment of significant issues about the case: for what reason wasn't Browder put on a line-up sooner or later during his tenure at Riker's? Why hold Browder in guardianship with no proof? For what reason was the bail set exorbitantly high, to such an extent that the family couldn't deal with the bail?

The responses to these inquiries can be shown by the construction of fundamental bigotry in America. Racial segregation is a critical issue tormenting the communities, frequently adding to police brutality and disregard. Police frequently seem to see Black young men and young ladies older than they are which becomes the reason why the high quantities of black people in prison are present. Police officers tend to see black people as criminals. Therefore, Kalief's innocence did not matter; the colour of his skin did. [6]

Reference

  1. Time: The Kalief Browder Story. Wikipedia. Retrieved Jan 24, 2021.
  2. Lartey, Jamiles. Kalief Browder: documentary examines a 'broken' criminal justice system. Mar 1, 2017. The Guardian. Retrieved Jan 24, 2021.
  3. Gonnerman, Jennifer.Exclusive Video: Violence Inside Rikers. April 23, 2015. newyorker.com. Retrieved Jan 24, 2021.
  4. Ofer, Udi. Kalief Browder’s Tragic Death and the Criminal Injustice of Our Bail System. March 15, 2017. aclu.org. Retrieved Jan 24, 2021.
  5. Queens College Students. [http://urbaninquirer.qwriting.qc.cuny.edu/2017/11/26/kalief-browder-solitary-confinement-and-the-horrors-of-criminal-justice/ KALIEF BROWDER : CRIMINAL “JUSTICE”. urbaninquirer.qwriting.qc.cuny.edu. Retrieved Jan 24, 2021.
  6. Gibson, Anna. the horrible truth: systemic racism is what killed kalief browder. June 12, 2015. forharriet.com. Retrieved Jan 24, 2021.