Kalief Browder
City Panel Likely To Recommend Closing New York City's Infamous Rikers Island Prison
Is Rikers Island Closing For Gentrification?

The New York City Council voted to close the jail.
by NewsOne Staff
03.30.20
Ty William Holder, Cobb County teen who kicked vice principal and threatened to "kill everyone"
White Teen Who Wants To 'Kill Everybody' Released

This is America.
by Megan Sims
03.29.20
2016 American Justice Summit
NYC Will Pay For Kalief Browder's Life

He was wrongfully imprisoned.
by NewsOne Staff
03.27.20
2017 Budweiser Made in America - Day 2
Hip Hop Pushes For Prison Reform And You…

In the wake of Meek Mill's hypervigilant sentencing, we look to the ongoing efforts of Hip Hop artists to end…
by A. French
11.14.17
USA - Prisons - Vernon C. Bain Correctional Center at Rikers
Bronx Teen Avoids Same Fate As Kalief Browder

Pedro Hernandez, a Bronx teen who was wrongfully arrested for a crime that he didn't commit, was released from the…
by @coupcoup40cal, Global Grind
08.02.17
Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year Ceremony 2016
Jay Z To Bail Out Incarcerated Dads

Jay Z will support criminal justice reform organizations in their efforts to bail out incarcerated fathers for Father’s Day.
by NewsOne Staff
06.17.17
2016 American Justice Summit
Bronx Street Renamed 'Kalief Browder Way'

The renaming recognizes the injustice to Browder and his role in shedding light on prison abuse of minors.
05.25.17
Demonstrators hold aloft a symbolic coffin bearing Kalief...
The Case For Shuttering Rikers Before 10 Years

Criminal justice reform advocate Glenn Martin says there's too much at stake to wait a decade to close the notorious…
05.08.17
TIME AND PUNISHMENT: A Town Hall Discussion With JAY Z And Harvey Weinstein On Spike TV
Jay Z To Produce Race In America Docuseries

National Geographic has picked up a six-part documentary from Jay Z and The Weinstein Company titled “Race With Jay Z.”
04.22.17
Demonstrators hold aloft a symbolic coffin bearing Kalief...
New York Finally Stops Charging Young Teens As…

Now that New York has ceased charging 16-and 17-year-olds as adults, North Carolina remains the only state in the U.S.…
04.10.17
Rikers Island
Rikers Island Jail Complex Closing

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Friday that the dilapidated and notorious Rikers Island jail complex will close,…
04.01.17
Demonstrators hold aloft a symbolic coffin bearing Kalief...
Bill De Blasio Plans To Renovate Rikers Island

New York City's mayor ignores prison reform activists and plans renovation of controversial prison complex.
03.19.17
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