"Kalief Browder was simply tossed into a dungeon and forgotten. Roman emperors used to do that"

[phantom power]

The other case is a more garden variety situation that is not About Race because nothing ever is About Race.

For a while, it appeared Mr. Browder was putting his life back together: He earned a high school equivalency diploma and started community college. But he continued to struggle with life after Rikers. On Saturday, he committed suicide at his parents' home in the Bronx. Jennifer Gonnerman, the author of the article in The New Yorker, said in an interview on Monday that it appeared he was never able to recover from the years he spent locked alone in a cell for 23 hours a day. Once out of jail, Ms. Gonnerman said, "he almost recreated the conditions of solitary," shutting himself in his bedroom for long periods. "He was very uncomfortable being around people, especially in large groups," she said.

Browder was simply tossed into a dungeon and forgotten. Roman emperors used to do that to people back before we all became more civilized. Criminal-justice reform never had two better cautionary tales than these. I'm sure, however, that, when Hillary Rodham Clinton said this back in April...

"Without the mass incarceration that we currently practice, millions fewer people would be living in poverty...And it's not just families trying to stay afloat with one parent behind bars. Of the 600,000 prisoners who re-enter society each year, roughly 60 percent face long-term unemployment."

...she was just trying to mobilize her base and divide the country.

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a35576/man-in-40-years-of-solitary/

[onecaliberal]

1. He was also tortured.

Someone needs to pay for what happened to Kalief, not with just money from the state either. That's not good enough.

[Stardust]

2. Of all the tragic stories lately, this one is the saddest IMHO.