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April 12, 2017 The FaderWhy Kalief Browder’s brother says it’s time to end the prison system
Akeem Browder on the fight to close Rikers Island and why “prison reform” is not the answer to mass incarceration.
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April 06, 2017 Mass Appeal
My brother’s keeper: Akeem Browder on Kalief’s legacy and shutting down Rikers
Ahead of the airing of the final episode of Time: The Kalief Browder Story on Spike TV, Kalief's elder brother, Akeem Browder spoke with MASS APPEAL about the line of demarcation for his family: all that came before Kalief’s being wrongly accused of stealing a backpack in May of 2010, and all that came after.
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April 05, 2017 Manhattan Times
Relief after re-entry
A new federal bill named for Kalief Browder, who committed suicide after incarceration on Rikers Island, is designed to improve mental health services for those re-entering society after serving jail time.
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March 29, 2017 Newsday
[Justice-involved individuals] leaving NYC jails will be guaranteed jobs, De Blasio says
Every one of New York City’s estimated 8,500 [incarcerated individuals] sentenced to time in city jails will leave with guaranteed, minimum-wage, short-term jobs likes cooks, restaurant bussers, or construction flaggers under a policy by Mayor Bill de Blasio. The aim is to reduce recidivism, he said.
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April 02, 2017 ABC7
[Formerly incarcerated individual from Rikers] says jail was ‘huge, unmanageable’
Inside Rikers, the 400-acre facility known to many as 'Torture Island,' is where Stanley Richards [Fortune Executive Vice President] did his time in the late 80s for robbery and drugs. "I was in solitary confinement in Rikers in cells, in dorms. It's huge, it's unmanageable - this work for me is not about work, it's personal," he says.
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March 27, 2017 NPR
College classes in maximum security: ‘it gives you meaning’
More than 650,000 [incarcerated individuals] are released every year in the U.S., but no federal agency tracks the unemployment rate for this population. Experts say low reading and technological literacy, as well as reluctance among employers to hire formerly [incarcerated individuals], means many drop out of the labor force altogether.
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