The documentary dives into the fundamentally broken parts of the criminal justice system and personifies it with Browder's story.
Venida Browder, the 63-year-old the mother of the late Kalief Browder, who committed suicide after spending three horrific years being abused on Rikers Island, died of complications of a heart attack, or as her lawyer noted, "of a broken heart."
NEW YORK — Tracy Lawrence, an inmate at Rikers island beamed in her cap and gown, after graduating from the facility’s parenting course, alongside her three kids and 11 other female prisoners. Lawrence, 30, was sentenced to eight months in prison for gun possession. “When the incident happened, I wasn’t thinking about my kids,” Lawrence […]
