Teen Thrown In Violent New York Prison For Years Without Ever Having Been Convicted
In America, if you are poor everything leads to prison. I read about this story and was not surprised. A 16-year-old boy walking home from a party is accused of robbery and arrested. Then bail is set at $10,000. His family has no extra money so he spends the next 3 years of his young life in one of the most hostile prisons in the country.
He was threatened with 15 years in prison if he did not admit to the crime. This is where I believe the District Attorney realized he did not have a case. This is where many poor innocent people fold and admit to a crime and are released with time served.
In America, the poor are often abused and overlooked. As more and more groups of people are now beginning to experience poverty they are outraged at such happenings. What many don’t realize is it has been happening for hundreds of years to certain groups.
Back to this young man. Through prison gang abuse and a few attempts at suicide, he stood strong and did not admit to a crime he did not commit. The DA had no choice but to drop the charges or look like a fool in court. Believe me, charges were not dropped in the pursuit of justice they were dropped for the latter.
Fear of looking like a fool in court. After three years the now young adult is freed with not so much as an apology or an explanation as to why I took so long. Many celebrities, rich and well-connected act with reckless abandon and walk free. The poor get hammered every minute of
The poor get hammered every minute of every day. From the police, city workers, the bank, the boss, schools, and each other to mention a few. I always test this as I travel from repair site to repair site for work. I always act unassuming and I keep a low profile to see how I am treated if I don’t act like I am someone important.
For some acting important does not even help. Some get frustrated when treated poorly and lash out and then point to that behavior as a group trait. That almost happened to me the other day. When I get to the site security often ignores me or tries to treat me like shit. Like I don’t belong or I am bothering them.
I am a Field Engineer and this Friday I was sent to Emirates Airlines Cargo (JFK AirPort) to move some telecommunications equipment to their new office space a few buildings away. I saw the usual office door was closed and locked so I spoke with security and they directed me to a customer service counter.
I walked over to the counter and stood there. I make eye contact with the lady from the Airline and she looks at me and continues to work. I remain civil and wait, she looks at me again and continues to work on her computer. I smile and continue to wait as I am getting paid and they are paying the bill.
Finally, a woman from another airline could not take it anymore and asked if she could help me look in her direction. They all heard security point me in her direction so that is why she was so annoyed at the other woman.
Finally, she comes over and I explain why I am there and that I spoke with her manager at the new location and he wants to know what was going on. She flipped out and tried to be as helpful as possible.
I know I should not have but I then walked out pretending to talk on my cell phone as she followed me outside. The manager pulls up in his car and greets me as I know him and have worked with him many times and he escorts me over to the equipment. The look on her face was priceless.
I suspect New York City will throw a few million at this young man and the lawyer will advise him to take it and the lawyer will get over half of the money. This is what happened to the victims of the 911 attacks. The poor were forced to take the first offer of 1.5 million as they could not wait for years of litigation to be completed.
The rich and the well-to-do did not take that initial offer and received almost 10 times as much money. Just like this young man may not be able to force change as part of the deal in his law suite, as I suspect that is not what the legal system in NY wants and I also suspect this council would like to get paid sooner rather than later and would like to avoid any delay.
So as the system continues to abuse the poor and the poor confess to crimes they did not commit, the system continues to chug along. As more and more prisons become private and for-profit and more and more politicians get bought and paid for by the prison industry, some of you who believe you and your family are safe now will get caught up in the new system of prison profits.
The look on her face was priceless. I suspect New York City will throw a few million at this young man and the lawyer will advise him to take it and the lawyer will get over half of the money. This is what happened to the victims of the 911 attacks.
The poor were forced to take the first offer of 1.5 million as they could not wait for years of litigation to be completed. The rich and the well-to-do did not take the initial offer and received almost 10 times as much money.
Just like this young man may not be able to force change as part of the deal in his law suite as I suspect that is not what the legal system in NY wants and I also suspect this council would like to get paid sooner rather than later and would like to avoid any delay.
So as the system continues to abuse the poor and the poor confess to crimes they did not commit, the system continues to chug along. As more and more prisons become private and for-profit and more and more politicians get bought and paid for by the prison industry, some of you who believe you and your family are safe now will get caught up in the new system of prison profits.
Please take the time to learn more about The Full Kalief Browder Tragedy that plays out hundreds of times a day in the United States of America.
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