by Dr. Bill Johnson II
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At age 16, despite being given no trial, Kalief Browder was imprisoned at Rikers Island, where he would spend the next three years of his life unjustly incarcerated. He was assaulted multiple times by both officers and inmates and restricted to solitary confinement for at least two years. He was able to secure release, and news of his experience was told in national magazines and on television talk shows. Kalief Browder was likely traumatized and debilitated by the torture which was inflicted upon him. He took his life almost two years to the day after his release from prison[i].