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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.
READ MOREKalief Browder will not be forgotten. Fortune Executive Vice President, Stanley Richards, and Case Manager, Ismael Nazario, are featured in the six-part documentary, TIME: The Kalief Browder Story.
READ MOREInside 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.
READ MOREAnother amazing thing about working at a professional commercial kitchen is that they are involved in helping others by bringing in interns from The Fortune Society.
READ MOREWhy was Rikers Island in need of closure, and what are the next steps now that it is? Our Executive Vice President, Stanley Richards, and Jeremy Travis, President of John Jay College of Criminal Justice, explain all this and more.
READ MOREMembers of the Independent Commission on NYC Criminal Justice and Incarceration Reform shared a stage with district attorneys from across the five boroughs and elected officials at John Jay College to talk about what shutting down Rikers would mean for the city.
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