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In case you didn't see it, there's an unhappy update to that story: http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/kalief-browder-1993-2015 http://www.newyorker.com/ne

• spinlock 11y ago
  That's so sad. I don't know what we expect from our jails but it's pretty plain that it either hardens or breaks people.
• fnordfnordfnord 11y ago
  I hope to see heads roll over this. Some have spent more time in pretrial detention than their maximum potential sentence would have been if found guilty. I don't understand how this could go on for so long when we have a 6th amendment.