16-year-old named Kalief Browder from the Bronx was accused of stealing a backpack
"stealing a backpack" doesn't sound so bad, but in the newyorker[0] ha is out on parole and "charged with robbery, grand larceny, and assault".
Robbery and assault by someone out on parole are a fare way from stealing a backpack.
I totally agree that the use of solitary confinement is probably to widely used and the story of Kalief Browder is sad, but after reading a bit more about it I feel a little bit tricked by this story. I wish the journalist cold better lay out the whole premises at the start, so I can easier make up my own opinion.
16-year-old named Kalief Browder from the Bronx was accused of stealing a backpack
"stealing a backpack" doesn't sound so bad, but in the newyorker[0] ha is out on parole and "charged with robbery, grand larceny, and assault".
Robbery and assault by someone out on parole are a fare way from stealing a backpack.
I totally agree that the use of solitary confinement is probably to widely used and the story of Kalief Browder is sad, but after reading a bit more about it I feel a little bit tricked by this story. I wish the journalist cold better lay out the whole premises at the start, so I can easier make up my own opinion.
0: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/06/before-the-law