Kalief Browder Suicide: Did Solitary Confinement Kill Him? Advocates On The 'Torture' Of Juvenile Detainees At Rikers Island

When New York City Councilman Daniel Dromm first visited Rikers Island three years ago, he entered a cell to get a sense of what it was like to be detained there. It was the same kind of jail cell Kalief Browder was thrown into in 2010, at age 16, after being accused of shoplifting a backpack. 

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