"Sunday Reading: Jennifer Gonnerman"
Few who read Jennifer Gonnerman’s “Before the Law” (click here) can forget the story of Kalief Browder, a Bronx high-school sophomore who was arrested for stealing a backpack. Browder spent three years on Rikers Island, where he was beaten by guards and inmates and spent months at a time in solitary confinement. When his case was dismissed and he was finally released, in May, 2013, Browder, who was twenty and had never finished high school, suffered from flashbacks and paranoia, and he struggled to resume an ordinary life. Two years later, he committed suicide....
