Now that New York has ceased charging 16-and 17-year-olds as adults, North Carolina remains the only state in the U.S. that continues to do so.
Glenn Martin, a former Rikers inmate and advocate for criminal justice reform, has continually made the effort to have Rikers Island closed.
She died from a broken heart. Venida Browder, the mother of Kalief Browder, who suffered emotional and physical abuse in Rikers Island which led to his later suicide, died of complications from a heart attack on Sunday. She was 63. Paul Prestia, Browder’s lawyer, remembered her as a “woman of incredible grace and compassion […]
