New Video Shows Teen Slammed by Guard, Beaten by Inmates in Rikers Island Jail

[Judi Lynn]

Source: ABC News

New Video Shows Teen Slammed by Guard, Beaten by Inmates in Rikers Island Jail
Apr 24, 2015, 3:19 PM ET
By AVIANNE TAN

Newly released surveillance footage from Rikers Island, New York City's 400-plus-acre prison complex, is raising concerns about alleged abuse and violence inmates face while behind bars there.

The footage, obtained by The New Yorker, appears to show New York City teen Kalief Browder being slammed to the ground by a Rikers Island guard in one incident and then being beaten by other inmates in another.

Browder, who turns 22 next month, spent three years at Rikers Island -- two years in solitary confinement -- while waiting for a trial over police accusing him of stealing a backpack in May 2010. Browder was released in June 2013 when the charges against him were dismissed.

In an interview last July, Browder told ABC News that he was held there for three years because his mother could not afford to pay his bail, set at $3,500, and a trial kept getting delayed.



Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/video-shows-teen-slammed-guard-beaten-inmates-rikers/story?id=30558028

[libdem4life]

1. Lord knows what else happened to this teenager.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

2. Outrageous

Three years in a hellhole like Rikers Island, slammed, beaten, with two years in solitaire all for allegedly stealing a backpack for which the charges were dismissed. If this were a rich man's kid, not only would he easily have made bail, but the police might not have taken him into custody but would have worked out the backpack incident between the parties. Unless that backpack was carrying gold, this sounds like an alleged case of petty theft at most from the start, not even a felony.

[RKP5637]

3. Damn Deplorable! n/t

[mikeysnot]

4. Family cannot pay 1500

So tax payers pay 300k. Nice

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/10/17/nyregion/rikers-jail-costs-soared-despite-fewer-inmates-comptroller-finds.html?referrer=&_r=0

[Telcontar]

5. Did he win a lawsuit or was it a settlement?

[happyslug]

6. That is the cost to keep him in jail

The article says $44 thousand per year for one year in the LA jail and NYC cost were TWICE that cost.

[Telcontar]

7. Oh shit!

Ankle bracelets not feasible? That is just obscene. I hope he gets a good lawyer.