The stories were disturbing, but I did not fully appreciate what he had experienced until this past April when I obtained surveillance footage of an officer assaulting him and of a large group of inmates pummeling and kicking him. He rode his bicycle back and forth to school every day, he no longer got panic attacks sitting in a classroom, and he earned better grades than he had the prior semester.Įver since I’d met him, Browder had been telling me stories about having been abused by officers and inmates on Rikers. For the next few months he seemed to thrive. This happy news prompted Browder to reënroll. An anonymous donor (who had likely read the New Yorker story) had offered to pay his tuition for the semester. Prestia, got a call from an official at Bronx Community College. Barnabas, Browder was released and sent back home. He had recently thrown out his brand-new television, he explained, “because it was watching me.”Īfter two weeks at St. He was gaunt, restless, and deeply paranoid. When I visited him there on January 9th, he did not seem like himself. One day after his release, he was hospitalized again, this time back at St. During the week of Christmas, he was confined in the psych ward at Harlem Hospital. Then, late last year, about two months after my story about him appeared, he stopped going to classes at Bronx Community College.
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When I met him, in the spring of 2014, he appeared to be more stable. Barnabas Hospital, not far from his home, in the Bronx. This time, he tried to hang himself at home, from a bannister, and he was taken to the psychiatric ward at St.
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In November of 2013, six months after he left Rikers, Browder attempted suicide again. After he was released, he struggled with mental health, and he eventually took his own life. Kalief Browder spent three years on Rikers Island without being convicted of a crime.