Essay About the Kalief Browder Story

Browder Story Review

        In the TV show Time: The Kalief Browder Story, a sixteen year old named Kalief Browder living in New York, was arrested for allegedly robbing a person. After being arrested, he was soon after sent to Riker’s Island for three years of solitary confinement without even being convicted. There he experienced threats and brutal beatings. This story is very powerful, heart wrenching, yet disturbing.

        Kalief Browder not only powerful, but the horrific truth of the conditions in Riker’s Island. Browder was beaten, threatened, bruised, cut, and was even hurt to the point where he had to be transferred to another “mod” multiple times. This show shows the horrible conditions the inmates are put in in terms of multiple things. One is the environment they are put into. They are put into cramped cells with barely enough room to move around. Secondly, the officers treat them unfairly and treat them like they are nothing, pushing them against the wall, the ground, or just shoving them, all for no reason. Browder explained how he sometimes had to go days without eating. Browder explains these conditions in a very eye opening way showing us the true conditions of Riker’s Island.

        Browder goes through the explanation of how he was not even convicted and the police of the 48th precinct did not have any evidence connecting Browder to the crime. However, he stayed in jail and he served his three years showing his innocence and after going onto start a case against the precinct that arrested him. He was out to prove his innocence and determined to show the world the injustice ways of the Bronx Police Force. He was out to prove his innocence, even though his past went against him. He stayed those three years of Riker’s Island, even if he did not have a choice because his family could not pay the bail, but he did refuse the bargains police tried to give him.