Will never forget a man in my college class told us he had spent 23 yrs behind bars & i was 22 yrs old. I was shocked he was away more than i have ever been alive i couldnt believe it. This man said good afternoon every single time he walked into class with the brightes smile & the confidence he carried was admjrable. When he told us his story his eyes got watery & he just looked so haopy to be with us he looked older than everybody in the class, hope he is doing good where ever he is❤
I actually did 3 years on rikers and I can say that it’s literally hell on earth I pray to god that I never go back & im actually 6 years police contact free .....
So many missed a very important point about Riker’s….It’s a holding jail for detainees! None of the people were convicted of crimes. Can’t say things like “don’t do the crime” if there’s a chance the person didn’t commit a crime! Individuals need a speedier trial system. There’s no way people should be subjected to such torture while waiting for their fair trials! That’s a huge injustice!
@@tubester4567 Not necessarily, a young teen was sent there for stealing a cheap booking. He was badly beaten and raped, he died. All for a cheap booking and he never got his day in court
I spent 19 1/2 years as a ward of the state. Foster Homes, other State Training Homes. I became a bully, stabbed, took foods and other criminal acts while in those homes. I got out and placed in Foster Care and graduated with honors from high school. I graduated from college and spent 8 years teaching in Europe. I retired from the Michigan Department of Corrections as a G.E.D. Teacher! This is the BEST DOCUMENTARY I have EVER seen!!! I've always heard that Rikers Island is the island and jail of death. I am so proud of those who made it out of Rikers Island and years of prison time to work with those in need. May our God continue to bless them (you) to reach one!!
Prisons need to seperate violent from non violent offenders,because those non violent offenders come out violent.The majority of arrests are because of drug posession.
But if they did then those unfortunately mis convicted passives would be thrown into concentrated violents (a screws nightmare) and vice versa, violents would find themselves in a population of mostly passive
I'm so glad I'm out of that life. It took me 5 trips to the penitentiary to get my life together. I spent 30 years on heroin. I wasn't a bad person. I just had a horrible addiction. I'm going on 6 years clean and all I do is work now. I like my life so much better now
@@ivreiceman20257 I wonder if you would say something like that if I were standing in front of you. I doubt it. Don't you think it's kinda cowardly to talk shit over a computer where you can't get hurt?
To think that Kalief Browder and Korey Wise had to be incarcerated at 16 years old in that place of hell for something they did not do...this is a human tragedy!
that browder story fucked with me alot when i first learned about it. now that ive kinda learned more about the prison system and prison politics i can understand why that horrible event occured
@@AM-eu7tp ain't no such thing az a speedy trial your exactly right lol I'm from jersey essex county Newark all day born and raised but niggaz be sitting in that county for yrs
This was, by far, the best documentary on this subject I have yet watched. And I've watched many upon many. Intelligent interviews, on both sides, the questions and the inmate responses. Not the norm. Way better than the norm. Uploader: Thank you Much
@@fanclubagainstallracesofne8553I've seen you post utter bullshit on every single person's comment on here. Maybe you need to get yourself a life instead of acting like a fucking clown.
@A1 Confidence yes,,,,when I was incarcerated at Joliet Illinois prison cell block D,,, my lover was White boy Willie,,, we shared honey buns, cigarettes and sweet rolls....I have been home now for 3years and have 2 girlfriend,, 1 black,,1 white ,so I am not prejudice... Yes in PRISON it is called GAY for the STAY.... Past LIFE..... How about you???
My oldest brother straightened us out he spent 12years in prison in the60’s and the things he told us stuck that’s one experience I knew that life wasn’t for me I thank GOD that I listened every day.
Dude won $500k lawsuit vs NYC for beating he took on Rikers, and on Thanksgiving Day was shot dead outside his apt days before getting his check? Sounds fishy as hell!!!!
TruMusic89 yes I have heard his story too.. there many innocent ppl in there and it just makes me soo sad.. rikers is a place only violent violent offenders should go.. some ppl go there for something as simple as not paying child support.. it’s just not right.. it’s inhuman cruel and unusual..
I’m reading these comments and now I realized why we live in the world we do. More than half of these young adults are innocent they are only guilty of being poor and a minority. These are 14 to 17 year old kids !!!! Kids !!!!! I pray for all their souls may God reach them 🤲🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
So.... you said that you "realise why we live in the World we do".... but there's nothing in your comment that talks about your realisation of "why"we live in the World we do..... I mean, you kinda gotta say "why".... right, what is it about the comments that inspired the realisation, what is the realisation essentially, and how is "praying for all their Souls" significant to them being"guilty of being poor and a minority", is it significant to you because you think that by signalling your pious virtuousness, it will be noticed and counted by "God's final verdict" on your morality......
do ppl not understand that there’s people in this jail who haven’t been convicted. they have only been accused. i’m not saying that all the people in this jail are innocent but their living in the way that they are already guilty.
and only due to the fact that they have no money for bail. and people don’t see the problem ? jail should rehabilitate not add more problems. if you really wanted them to come out of jail a decent citizen you would try to help them. not beat them. not starve them. not throw them in solitary.
Gaby Edlund NO they don't - the reason we allow this comment section to exsistvis to show the ugly face of racism and facism in America . It's sad but the world needs to have there arguments to show how much we will have to do to be a nation with equality
I agree with you wholeheartedly, yet almost everyone thinks they are getting what they deserve, imagine that!!!! All Us Getting What We Deserve????? I accept God mercy in Jesus name.
Brian, even so we were all born bad if you look through the eyes of Jesus yet he hung on that old rugged cross so we all can have a chance to be free. Who else shoes have you walked in other than your own??? Answer the riddle?
@Awesome Logic There is projection in your accusation. To demonize others for what is ultimately empathy for suffering, highlights the evil spirit of you.
I was arrested and put in a violent jail in Florida (Orient Road) for what was an ultimately a clerical error. Within a few minutes of being there someone threatened my life. Luckily my friends bailed me out. A clerk made a mistake and issued a warrant for my arrest. I did nothing wrong and was later cleared when I showed the judge a copy of a piece of paper that the clerk claimed I never filed. He admitted in court that he didn't see it because it was stuck to another piece of paper. There are innocent people in jail along with people who are supposed to be "innocent until proven guilty". To think I could have ended up getting hurt or killed or caught a real charge for defending myself makes me very angry. This is a JAIL, not a prison. People should be safe while they go to trial.
@@alicewashington220 Thank you. Yes, plenty of innocent people. Also plenty of innocent people that will take a plea bargain and admit to something they didn't do. Even the guilty should be safe while on trial.
@neal.karn-jones exactly. Would you risk doing a year by pleading guilty or 10 by going to a jury trial? And the bail system is a JOKE..especially if you can't afford it like so many can't.
I totally understand wanting to plead guilty to something you didn't do because the risk of a trial and a long sentence is insane. And if you can't afford a good lawyer you will lose. You are not "innocent until proven guilty", you are "guilty until you prove you're innocent". Also there should be no prisons owned by private corporations. It leads to legal slavery.@@laitoniamonroe2412
I hear what you're saying, but everyone has the right to a speedy trial. It's only when that right is waived by a defendant that they can be locked up for such a long time before trial. Even then, a 3-4 year delay would only be caused by the defendant's legal maneuvering.
@@TheIncarceratedNation As indicated, I hear what people are saying, but the number of arrests and pending trials do not erase the guarantees afforded by the 6th amendment of the Constitution, the "Federal Speedy Trials act", and applicable state law.
They conveniently leave out the fact that if the state cant put u on trial in 90 days u go free.. so y are they there for so long?? Because the defense has as long as they want to drag it out.. that's a fact bucko. So look into things before u say something so fucking stupid
Because it’s nyc 5 boroughs then you got Long Island NJ that’s alot of people going in and out of course your gonna be wating couple years for your hearing
For those who are saying don't do the crime clearly you didn't listen to the first minute that says 80% haven't even been convicted of a crime. What happened to innocent until proven guilty. This is a jail not a prison.
I always thought it was awful how they drop people off in the middle of the night in Queens Plaza with a MetroCard and just abandon them. There should be some sort of outreach center for them to get some real food, a shower to wash off the prison smell, an item of clothing that they choose, even if it’s just a hat. Let them sleep there until morning and if they want, have someone go with them to their home. If they’ve got nobody and no home, get them in a program to transition to life on the outside. As a child we used to drive over the Throgs Neck Bridge and look down on Riker’s. Mom would make us say prayers for the prisoners. We thought it was weird. Nobody else’s Mom did that, but it’s a habit I maintain to this day although I don’t live in New York any more. I still have a few family out on Long Island and when I drive down or fly into LGA, I pray for the prisoners stuck in there. I like to think I’d never go to jail, but that’s presumption. We’re all capable of wrongdoing when pushed too hard. “There, but for the grace of God…” R.I.P. to the man who got shot right outside his building in Brooklyn. None of the people in this documentary seem “bad.” Most of them made bad choices or just fell into a life of crime because of how they grew up. A few were truly innocent and had to serve years anyway. The man who spoke about how hard it is to get a job, I’d hire him. Everyone deserves another chance if they are sincerely trying to do right.
Korey is who I'm worried about... in every review he just seem out of it. Being so young and having nothing to do with this shit has ruin his entire life. 😭
Corey wise is fine he has a job at N A.N with Rev Al Sharpton and runs organizations for people incarcerated needing representation...he is very socially active...his life is not ruined he makes it count
I once knew a relative of mine, who is now deceased, and I asked him what was his time in Rikers Island like. He said to me, "David, you don't even want to see the outside of the damn place!" Once outside, I asked him how well he was adjusting to being so-called free and in the free world. He said something to me I'll never forget when he stated, "Maybe what that guy Mark Fuhrman said was absolutely true. You don't have to incarcerate someone to put them in prison!"
Korey Wise was just a baby and they put him here, an innocent little baby. What the fuck is wrong with these monsters, how could they do that. I wish I could reach out to Korey. He went through hell and I bet he still does every night he must be tormented by these memories. / thanks for all the likes
Real Class no just because we know of two cases of innocent men doesn’t mean we know all. Many in there are innocent and just put in the system and some turn bad and others stay true to their good hearts. You can’t say they are all gritty slumbums or whatever you just called them you don’t know their story.
@ Paul Sxton Do you see the way the satanic/marxist/democratic scum are screaming about how bad it is to "separate illegal citizens who come from Mexico, from their families..." What about legal black families who's ancestors have been living here for hundreds of years....why dont we make sure we're not separating black families from their father by incentivizing via welfare programs to get rid of the father...80% of black children grow up without a father....wheres the outcry??? Whats your opinion on that - you virtue signaling, marxist hypocrite?
LawrinMaxwellsmpc500 Im actually from Ireland...but heres something u mite find cool....the Irish were the slaves of the English and then you guys became the slaves also....but then our people met..Irish and Africans.....and we mixed....heres our descendants.... Imagine living in the Caribbean drinking Guinness? :) ua-cam.com/video/vZNEloGC1oI/v-deo.html If you listen to their song...its very Irish....but, the Irish language comes from North Africa, I can speak fluently with the Berbers of North Africa.... Our skin color doesnt matter ...our language, history and past is far more important... God Bless...and if you ever come to Ireland I'll buy you a hundred Guinness :) :)
Keandra Fitzgerald If society would let more of these guys take what they've learned bookwise, let them use that intelligence on the outside, then we could have a successful rehabilitation program and a lot of these guys would be reformed. Sadly, they can't get jobs in corporate America based on their criminal history. These types of background policies need to be reexamined, maybe one day our society will give these people a better chance at success after jailtime.
And many other black man. Luckily we have our people fighting for prison reform. Going to this place for allegedly stealing a backpack. It's sick and disgusting.
Rikers is hell on earth. Period. I remember going every other weekend in the late 90s when I was only 7 years old to visit my father and it was even worse back then. It’s still the worst prison in the country and everyone in there has either less than a year to go, are awaiting trial, or waiting to be sent up top (upstate) if you have a year and a day or more. At least nowadays there’s a half ass attempts to Bring to light the injustices going on there. I just remember it felt like you were in a nightmare crossing that bridge. That bus ride over feels like your on your way to your death and they treat the visitors like inmates themselves even me as a kid. Luckily, my father had no issues when he was there because he was in his mid 40s and considered an old timer Italian street dude raised in the South Bronx to most of the young guys there. Even during visiting hours the other guys would pass by to sit with the people visiting them and say whattup pops! That placed scarred me just by visiting. Can’t even imagine actually being there full time. RIP Dad love and miss you. Fuck that place!
Watching this and all I can think of is Kalief Browder. RIP wherever you are kid, safe in your mothers arms I hope, both taken too soon. 😢That poor kid and his poor mama dying because of the injustice and inhumanity of many not just a few CO’s. What a horrifying account from these men and women.
I don't have a problem with prisons. I also don't think that all prisoners , regardless of crime, should be housed in the same facilities. Someone who has unpaid parking tickets shouldn't be in with someone has 4 or 5 bodies hanging over their head.
The first guy had a similar story to Khalief. Didn't do anything but got pointed out and sent to Rikers. I've got a feeling that the same thing must have happened to thousands of kids. It's beyond f'd up
Being a correctional officer in a prison made me realize how tough these inmates live from the food to where they sleep. I pray to God I never jeopardize my freedom ever and end up inside.
I pray you stay safe and are a positive influence in there...we need GOOD corrections officers that actually care about the population they govern (for lack of better term).
Whatever happened to the right to a speedy trial? I watched this and other documentaries like it because I've never been in jail and I have an inquisitive mind about what really goes on inside. Hearing these stories makes me physically sick. Every single one of those correction officers need to pay for their crimes also. They're doing worse to the inmates than some of the inmates did to get locked up. Disgusting!!!
so we had to fight for that we will cover that in our next episode of killing rikers the podcast. that had to be renamed Kaliefs Law , we also had to produce a entire series to support the bill. no freedoms are ever given so we still are fighting for other city legislation
I've been in jail.. because I committed a crime and belonged there.. I didn't blame anybody.. did the time like a man and did not do it again. They treated us like a treated them.. so I can't take these lies.. all bull.. like all the bull about the bail system..all lies
@@johnadams2063 ur such a small minded individual John Adams. Dont u realize things could be different in a different prison johnny? Come on man use ur head Adam go look at some other prison documentaries or something. Talkin bout u did ur time like a man. 😆 lol
@@mikerubin22 u asshole. Jail is supposed to rehabilitate the human to be a productive member of society. Idk why u think c.o's beating ppl is ok u fckin dick. Ur last name says it all.
this place is doing its job scaring people out of crime so they dont return look at most soft prisons where most of the inmates are 4th or 5th time returnees. the soft prisons dont work rikers works
@@mikerubin22 I thought the narrative changed from crime and punishment to crime and rehabilitation. Isn’t there a notion that you can judge the progressiveness of a society by how it treats its prisoners? Suddenly, Sweden and others Scandinavian countries come to mind.
I feel so much better thinking my abuser suffered when at Rikers. I couldn't hit back as a kid. I hope you gave him hell every day he was in there. Some of you might not have deserved being hurt. He was not one of them.
I heard a prison guard interviewed once who wisely said, "The punishment in prison is not being able to leave." It's not being abused the way these people were. I am always upset when I hear people like the one man who had his addicted mother and grandmother abuse him. That abuse wasn't his fault.
so true. the constitution states that there shall be no cruel & unusual punishment , yet amendments have created the loophole that allows a person to be returned to slavery once arrested.
Many ignorant comments on here. I spent 8 months at Rikers. It was no joke. It was not fun. I learned my lesson and haven't returned. Not a life to live for anybody.
I think of the Central Park 5... Poor Corey sent to Rikers as a child and to boot, INNOCENT. 😢 all of them were innocent and locked up. Omg I’m bawling just thinking about the hell they endured!!! RIP Kalief Browder ...
Real Class You’ve been saying the same things over and over, it’s boring actually. I’ll just pray for the few brain cells you have left. God bless you, you need it.
im proud to say that it took us over ten years but now we have ended solitary confinement in the state and now all city facilities. what started as films and advocacy to close rikers is now a movement to abolish the system that traps so many. closing rikers is not just about a jail but ending a system that has been alive since slavery. im thankful for all that has tuned in and watched this doc , there will be more of these coming soon.
I'm all about people going to jail for breaking the law, but this is ridiculous!!! People are there for minor infractions and to await their court dates all the way up to murder, and they treat them the same way. It ain't right, and I don't know why there was only one of these former inmates that sued them!!!! If enough people sue them for their behavior, it'll bring attention. They'll have no excuses at that point because too many people will be watching. They'll have the fear of being reprimanded and the whole world knowing about it. Something needs to be done about this!!!!!!!!!!!!! We all know shit like this happens in jail, but the problem I have is when jail staff is involved in it. They're not doing their jobs, and they're putting people in danger. They're not playing a minor roll.....fuckin' sickening!!!
@Upscale Club Wow....learn how to spell. I wouldn't make high-and -mighty comments when u can't spell. There isn't a moral court, and not everyone is the same. But if there was a moral court, ud be judged because of ur prejudicial and racial off-the-wall comments. Not everyone in a racial group are the same.
I went to Rikers Island in 1973 for burglary according to the police, all i did was go into a burned out furniture store to look for furniture i can take home, was caught had a $50.00 bail, money my family didn't have, went to Rikers in the 2 weeks i was there i saw so much shit, i begged my brother to get me out of here, i was on 17 yrs old. My brother and his friend pulled an armed robbery at a local business got me out jail, after the case was dismissed i went back to school, graduated HS, joined the Army, did 20 years, retired now disabled veteran 80%, Jail / prison is hell, please stay away from crime, it doesn't pay.
Rev Benny passed away in 2022 from cancer, Damien Stapleton went back to jail. Ismael Nazario does TED talks & helps released inmates get jobs. Five is battling health issues. Candie Hailey means was found innocent and charges were dropped. but she’s has many mental disorders from being in solitary confinement. Marcell Neal still out but also have many mental disorders from being in solitary confinement. Couldn’t find anything on tariq Barnes. Raymond Yu is out and currently a successful rapper. Ralph nunez has an consent decree in honor of his name, for a plan on prison reform. Robert Hinton was sadly shot and killed a couple months after receiving his settlement.
A lot of these stories need to be shown to the people who think it’s “cool” to go to jail or who don’t care about the consequences of what they do. On the flip side imagine how horrible it is for someone to go to jail for something they didn’t do who would endure all this
sphinx8 I am so glad you did a flip side because this is not about the guilty, it’s about the innocent, even the guilty are still human beings. May God save us in Jesus name.
They used Kalief Browder videos getting beat up there for no reason. Just like Korey Wise story Kalief Browder story was so sad too. R.I.P Kalief Browder.
Close Knit Community I was only commenting on Korey and Kalief story how and much the justice system failed them and, regardless of what the other ex inmates have done no one deserves that kind of treatment. How Rikers is still operating is mind baffling and, I’m not wearing a Halloween costume that’s my graduation gown.
"The land of the free"... Such jails are a disgrace for every civilized country in the world. How can a rich country like USA have that animal standards? An offender who comes there with a minor offense, will come out as a psyched out monster who couldn't do good for society. Great plan, well done!
This is my second watch of this very disturbing documentary. I might watch it again. I am impressed by the men and women who were interviewed. Each person spoke with clarity, dignity and balance as they told their stories. Obviously, there is a problem with Rikers and the systems that maintain this legal torture chamber. Deplorable.
American prison is the biggest revenue it's all a business and its sick. I did 10 fucking years for 1 bag of dope... 1 BAG , first time I was 17!! It ruined my life forever
China mac my guy been watching him on UA-cam since he started his channel about jail and music. Now he has really grown his channel so it can get better if you put your mind to it. I remember him talking about being involved in a documentary about Rikers.
I worked in department of corrections. For Florida. The level of corruption in rikers is disgusting.... They need to fire every single staff member and start over.... I worked in a prison that was run clean and a inmate could serve his sentence with out walking around with a target on the back. Because the officers did they're job!!! I'm disgusted by the stories no one should go through that level of corruption in a American run facility. Something huge has got to change.
YOU GONNA TELL ME THAT BECAUSE THE GUARDS WERE NOT BAD THAT THE INMATES WERE GOOD AND JUST DID THEIR TIME AND DIDNT FIGHT AND TRY TO KILL EACH OTHER OR TRY TO KILL ANY GUARDS ??????? YOU THINK IM STUPID THERE IS NO PRISON WERE THE INMATES ARE ALL GOOD AND JUST WANT TO DO THEIR TIME IN PEACE!!!!!!!!~ U ARE FULL OF FUCKING SHIT !!!!!
I have watched this documentary so many times...I feel everyone's pain, the guy though, that actually sued, but was ultimately murdered before getting compensated....my Lord...
Thank You,Making this Doc took alot and im still working on the second one currently. But being a activist producing these help in our work to End this system. Your words mean alot Thanks!
@@TheIncarceratedNation I have also watched it several times after hearing about it on vlad tv. I never knew Rikers was this bad. It sounds like a place that would be in a 3rd world country or something. Thank you for sharing your work. When do you think you will put another one out?
My brother was in here and I always remember him telling me a story about the guy in the cell next to him who had mental issues. He told the guard he wanted to kill himself and the guard told him go ahead. Everytime the guard did a round the guard would go up to the guys cell and taunt him and say " I thought you were going to kill your self"
If I were to imagine how Hell would be, Riker’s Island seems like a good comparison. Edit: I just read that in 2015, the City settled a lawsuit about inmates being beaten by correction officers for 3.5 million. Then I saw another one written in 2017 that even though changes have been made to the place, violence is still just as bad. I see that there is no solution to the problem. For all the comments I’ve read that are kind of negative, these people are somebody’s child, parent, sister, brother, etc. but most of all, they are American citizens. It’s disgusting to take advantage of people when they are down. The only thing I know is that We will all face God’s Judgement one day. Thank you for the video. 🙏❤️
Melissa Abercrombie my son died in prison in 2018 after being in that transfer unit 6 days. It’s 2020 and they have yet to explain what happened to him. I was told 2 different stories about how he passed, which one am I to believe. Neither, because two stories mean there’s a lie somewhere. Then the warden at that time told me “ my son was fighting demons on the inside “, but my son was not depressed.
A1 Confidence oh dear. I’m am so not a fan of H and Markle. That’s kind of funny because I was just watching a Murky Meg video and read your reply. 😂 H and Markle will be judged by God one day. As will I. Sometimes I get this feeling, compassion or empathy, because i would wish for people to feel compassion for my family if I became a Shadythug. And guess what else? I’m a Trump supporter. Trump 2020🥰 God Bless You 🇺🇸
Stephanie n Erica I’m sorry for your loss. In my state, in my county actually, there have been a lot of inmate deaths being reported in the news. Yes, two stories does seem suspicious. I hope you get your answers and I’m saying a prayer things will work out in the best way possible for you!❤️
As someone in HR that has tried to hire an ex-con, it is quite difficult, as potential employers are concern about the safety of their current employees. Most employees are uncomfortable and concern about the violence. However, I worked at a security company in college that did hire many ex-cons. Same for hiring veterans. Employers are concern that candidates with exposure to war or post dramatic trauma, in their background will have an issue adapting to Civilian life and unfortunately most of them do have issues.
4,305,937 views since Apr 17, 2017, it's that time for the second & third chapters of this Doc Series to begin. What's your Rikers Story? Want to Be in The Next installment Email us some details about your time, don't forget to include when and where incarceratednationnetwork@gmail.com
What other prisons are you going to do this for?? I've heard lots of stories like these coming out of McNeil Island and Walla Walla in Washington state.
That's a damn shame how that boy was beat by his own grandmother. A grandmother is the one person you truly feel will love you and then to have his mother take him to the hospital and never come back. Thats just fucked up. He has no ability to be stable. Its a damn shame.
Thank you to all the white people that actually understand the seriousness of this and aren't just here being racist asf. I dont understand why people watch other peoples struggle just to talk shit? If you don't like us why even be on here watching this? It's disgusting asf. I don't like having to point out race, but yall make it so damn hard.
I spent a year there. The co were just as corrupt as the inmates. The mail lady would allow cash paper money to come into the jail. This is so inmates could buy tobacco, marijuana or what ever was being pushed . C/O would give certain things to certain inmates to sell. I wouldnt beilve it if I didnt see the shit myself.
In your opinion do you think prison would be a better place if people couldnt get the drugs? I think most people use drugs for escapism and stress relief. Do you think you would've been any safer If they couldnt get their fix? not saying that what the employees were doing was right, but idk, they could've been actually helping to stave off a few frustration and desperation fueled assaults and suicides if that's what it takes to keep some peoples minds occupied for a while instead of having nothing to do but think about whose going to be their next victim because that's the only thing they know to blow off steam. I doubt that's actually the employee's motivation for sneaking drugs in but if it has the unintended benefit of saving life and limb...again I'm not saying it's right for them to do.
At 29:42 that’s kalief browder getting beat up. Idk why this innocent man is even in this video. Put some respect on a juvenile who beat the system but was put in jail for the content of his skin. RIP Kalief Browder
This is a great documentary. I now understand why people say I will never go back to jail and rather shoot it out with cops and die as opposed to go back to jail. Sad man.
It's disgusting that in the richest city in the richest country in the world that we do this to children. I'm from NYC and we should all be ashamed that this happens.
New York, New York is two different cities yes there's the richest city that also houses the poorest district community in the entire United States of America right in the south Bronx congressional district #15 ( please google that fact) what's even sadder is the NYers pay over 200,000 per person in NYC jails and about 90-1000 per person in state facilities.also why its the most expensive place to live at NYS has 62 counties over 50 of them are prison towns, meaning the prison was built then the world town was built and named after it, NYC has 11 jails but we also have federal prisons, for-profit prisons, and jails and of course, the signature jails we got one that floats but leaks, we have 400 acres of the nation's largest jail that's an island, also kids jails scattered all around shopping areas & projects. NYC jails and uses solitary 4 times over the national average. not only was Rikers island which used to house captured slaves one of the first jails built in 1650 but to be honest NYS was the first to build prisons as an income-producing system for cities.
At the end of the day inmates are human as well. They just hit a rough patch in life. We all have them. It just hasn’t been exposed. Praying for their souls.
To everyone thinking that everyone in jail are criminals, gotta learn how the American system works. In America you dont have to commit a crime to end up in jail, just gotta pray and count your blessings that it wasn't u that ended up in there innocent. This could happen to anybody sadly, unless you're rich.
I was celebrating my 21 birthday. We were walking to another bar a cop was standing in a doorway so I stopped and asked if he wanted to have a drink with us. Instantly I was in handcuffs and spent the next week in jail. I had never been in trouble before or after. This is the system. Bail was $1000
I absolutley do not hate cops. This cop was random and probably had a bad night. I'm talking about a week in jail with 1000 dollar bail. This was also the first time in my life I had drank alcohol. I thought what happened shouldn't have.
I did a total of 2 years as an inmate within the NYC DOC in 1990 for drug sales in the East New York section of Brooklyn and for also impersonating one of New Yorks finest in 1994 while shaking down illegal establishments in Manhattan. From Bklyn house to C76, C74, C73, C72, OBC something, HDM & NIC. I went to damn near every building on Rikers island. Back then the Blacks ran 1 phone, and the Latinos ran the other phone, but the inmates who couldn't use the phones had to use the collect call option on the 3rd phone. My slot time on the phone was from 7-8pm. I was good in every sense as a neutral who had no gang affiliations. I knew people throughout NYC, so I was good wherever I landed. I even knew a few correction officers from the streets, and even dated one, so even when I came back from up north for resentencing, I was good. But you really had to watch your back at all times. Regardless of who you knew, Rikers Island is considered Gladiator school. It's been over 20 years since I have roamed the corridors of Rikers. I have never looked back. People, places and things is a huge part of my life today, (now 57 years of age). The journey continues, but life is much better today than those knuckle head years of the 80's & 90's. Peace. Rist.1. Top!
God bless you my brother . I'm 43 now and I'm from Brooklyn but moved to Harlem and man was it rough coming up and getting locked and landing on the island . People don't understand how crazy that was then .... If you can survive there you can survive anywhere . I been locked up in different states but nothing compares to the island.
@@fanclubagainstallracesofne8553 You are a psychopath that enjoys the pain and punishment of others. Either you are happy to allow them to be raped and abused b/c because they committed a crime or you don't have the intellectual intelligence to look past your own prejudices to see the worth in people. So..bye.
I know it's ridiculous most of them are in there on bonds less than a grand! So basically they're being punished because they don't have money! Because remember you're supposed to be innocent until proven guilty which we all know is the other way around! a lot of innocent men and women plead guilty just to get out of that hellhole. #ISTANDWITHKALIEF Browder!
If you haven't heard the story of what this jail did to Khalief Browder, look it up. That shit happened in America, at Riker's Island to an innocent kid.
All yall need to watch the Kalief Browder documentary on Netflix. If that doesn't make you sad, mad, and questionable about Rikers Island, then you aren't human!!!
@@debrahall7325 Hell yes!!! I live down south and we dont mess with Jay too tough, but the fact that he did something like that and it ACTUALLY MADE A CHANGE, I can't do anything but salute him!!! But about what you said, the part where he is getting harassed because folks thought he was PAID when he got home and when his Mom died from pretty much the stress of it all, just KILLED ME!!!!
Billy Ho I'm in tears writing this reply...yes in the end it literally killed his mother..but she fought as hard as she could..its so heartwrenching that this poor boy never got justice in life or death.and the fact that this place still exists is sickening and inhumane!
It’s absolutely absurd that this is for pre-trial detainees. This is for people who are ACCUSED of crimes, not already convicted and found guilty. This is where you go when you’re accused and too poor to pay bail. If that doesn’t give ever American chills then something is seriously wrong. Close Rikers now. Smaller and safer jails for NYC.
BomChickyBowWow it kills me that more Americans aren’t absolutely disgusted by this one very horrifying fact. It should grate against the conscience of anyone Supporting the way our penal system works. People have to pay for competent defense, and you have to pay for the ability to wake up in your own bed and see your family, before you’ve ever actually been convicted of a crime- and this is just as true for nonviolent criminals as for violent.... It’s a fucking SHAME.
Yup in the beginning they said nearly 80% haven't been convicted yet. They send many people there just because they can't afford or know anyone that can help bail them out in bookings before they get to Riker's. This is crazy smh.
@Intelligent Club imagine you actually understanding my comment .. try telling that to the central park 5 ... they were decent citizens but still convicted beacuse of (well you know why).stick to the topic buddy.
Will never forget a man in my college class told us he had spent 23 yrs behind bars & i was 22 yrs old. I was shocked he was away more than i have ever been alive i couldnt believe it. This man said good afternoon every single time he walked into class with the brightes smile & the confidence he carried was admjrable. When he told us his story his eyes got watery & he just looked so haopy to be with us he looked older than everybody in the class, hope he is doing good where ever he is❤
everytime i watch a prison documentary it reminds me how grateful I am
TRUE THAT
#100%
Amen
Amen.Again
@@jefffowler6183 yn
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I actually did 3 years on rikers and I can say that it’s literally hell on earth I pray to god that I never go back & im actually 6 years police contact free .....
Stay that long way.
GREAT!! Keep it up .... There isn't anything worth that ... Damn
Why were you there?
Congratulations. Keep doing what you are doing. You deserve freedom and happiness.
@@jeffpadgett1339 that’s a fed ass question
So many missed a very important point about Riker’s….It’s a holding jail for detainees! None of the people were convicted of crimes. Can’t say things like “don’t do the crime” if there’s a chance the person didn’t commit a crime! Individuals need a speedier trial system. There’s no way people should be subjected to such torture while waiting for their fair trials! That’s a huge injustice!
Dam. I didn't know that
Rikers is land will change you because your forced to be violence there . .
Most criminals will get bail, most likely these are for violent serious no bail crimes
@@tubester4567 Not necessarily, a young teen was sent there for stealing a cheap booking.
He was badly beaten and raped, he died.
All for a cheap booking and he never got his day in court
In case u didn’t know , rikers is a “jail” not prison every jail has ppl awaiting trial or or already sentenced under 2 years.
i cant believe poor 16 yr old Korey Wise went through this... My heart breaks for him #whentheyseeus
I spent 19 1/2 years as a ward of the state. Foster Homes, other State Training Homes. I became a bully, stabbed, took foods and other criminal acts while in those homes. I got out and placed in Foster Care and graduated with honors from high school. I graduated from college and spent 8 years teaching in Europe. I retired from the Michigan Department of Corrections as a G.E.D. Teacher! This is the BEST DOCUMENTARY I have EVER seen!!! I've always heard that Rikers Island is the island and jail of death. I am so proud of those who made it out of Rikers Island and years of prison time to work with those in need. May our God continue to bless them (you) to reach one!!
God bless You, Korey Wise, Kalief Browder, and many others. I want to find a way to help! May God help me help.
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Prisons need to seperate violent from non violent offenders,because those non violent offenders come out violent.The majority of arrests are because of drug posession.
But if they did then those unfortunately mis convicted passives would be thrown into concentrated violents (a screws nightmare) and vice versa, violents would find themselves in a population of mostly passive
This is gotta be the biggest misconception I know alot of guys that came thru with non violent convictions that were violent ass hell 😂
But that wouldn't be profitable-- recidivism is better for the bottom line of those invested in this atrocious system.
I'm so glad I'm out of that life. It took me 5 trips to the penitentiary to get my life together. I spent 30 years on heroin. I wasn't a bad person. I just had a horrible addiction. I'm going on 6 years clean and all I do is work now. I like my life so much better now
How many times did you get turned out? Ouch!
@@ivreiceman20257 I wonder if you would say something like that if I were standing in front of you. I doubt it. Don't you think it's kinda cowardly to talk shit over a computer where you can't get hurt?
@@ivreiceman20257 What a douchebag thing to say. I'm 💯 % convinced by your comment that it's you that would be turned out.
RIKERS ISLAND is like a MENTAL CONCENTRATION CAMP. It's no place for a human being that is supposed to be locked up for a few months.
To think that Kalief Browder and Korey Wise had to be incarcerated at 16 years old in that place of hell for something they did not do...this is a human tragedy!
Demonic institution.
that browder story fucked with me alot when i first learned about it. now that ive kinda learned more about the prison system and prison politics i can understand why that horrible event occured
Here here .
Happens more than when we hear about it unfortunately.
@Gary Mcguckin may God NOT ever mercy on your rotten soul
Imagine going through all of this for several years just waiting for your court date when you're legit for real innocent!! RIP Kahlif Browder.
He is in no pain now. Let that be your peace. 🙏
That is bullshit..so.much for speedy trial
@@AM-eu7tp ain't no such thing az a speedy trial your exactly right lol I'm from jersey essex county Newark all day born and raised but niggaz be sitting in that county for yrs
Yes may he rest in so much peace
@@edwinortiz8333 u gotta pay for a speedy trial. No other way
I use to visit my father in Rikers in the 80's. I was a kid. All these years later, life is good. Pops is chilling on the Gulf coast of Florida 🙏
This was, by far, the best documentary on this subject I have yet watched. And I've watched many upon many. Intelligent interviews, on both sides, the questions and the inmate responses. Not the norm. Way better than the norm.
Uploader: Thank you Much
APex watch the kalief browder documentary on Netflix, that is also great docu to watch.
Watching this makes me appreciate my parents even more, and more, and more! Thanks Mom and Dad!
Kalief Browder, Korey Wise, probably countless of other CHILDREN that are subjected to this torture for nothing!! It makes me sick!
@@fanclubagainstallracesofne8553I've seen you post utter bullshit on every single person's comment on here. Maybe you need to get yourself a life instead of acting like a fucking clown.
Hello pretty face woman.... Beautiful smile.... I am on the clock here in Melrose Park Illinois USA watching this video... I like your words...
@A1 Confidence have you ever experienced a Same Sex Sexual escapade before??
@A1 Confidence have you ever experienced a Same Sex Sexual experience with the same sex as you???????
@A1 Confidence yes,,,,when I was incarcerated at Joliet Illinois prison cell block D,,, my lover was White boy Willie,,, we shared honey buns, cigarettes and sweet rolls....I have been home now for 3years and have 2 girlfriend,, 1 black,,1 white ,so I am not prejudice... Yes in PRISON it is called GAY for the STAY.... Past LIFE..... How about you???
My oldest brother straightened us out he spent 12years in prison in the60’s and the things he told us stuck that’s one experience I knew that life wasn’t for me I thank GOD that I listened every day.
Dude won $500k lawsuit vs NYC for beating he took on Rikers, and on Thanksgiving Day was shot dead outside his apt days before getting his check? Sounds fishy as hell!!!!
No it doesn't.
Very suspicious
You know as soon as you got that Check you would have left town
Jason Hay facts
@@werdup55 yes it does
I’m just here to see what it was like for korey wise.. my heart breaks for him soooooooo much!
Sad situation 😢
TruMusic89 yes I have heard his story too.. there many innocent ppl in there and it just makes me soo sad.. rikers is a place only violent violent offenders should go.. some ppl go there for something as simple as not paying child support.. it’s just not right.. it’s inhuman cruel and unusual..
Just thinking that at only 16 years old Korey Wise went straight to Rikers Island. Heartbreaking
@may day how? if he was proven innocent.
Thats our brother !
No child should have ever been sent to a place like that. If they weren’t messed up before going there they would be by the time they got out.
@elexis3728 that's a fact 💯 you never forget or get over Rikers Island .
I’m reading these comments and now I realized why we live in the world we do. More than half of these young adults are innocent they are only guilty of being poor and a minority. These are 14 to 17 year old kids !!!! Kids !!!!! I pray for all their souls may God reach them 🤲🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
Innocent lmaooo
Thing is once you go thru Rikers wether innocent or not you come out a completely different person. It changes you most for the better .
So.... you said that you "realise why we live in the World we do".... but there's nothing in your comment that talks about your realisation of "why"we live in the World we do..... I mean, you kinda gotta say "why".... right, what is it about the comments that inspired the realisation, what is the realisation essentially, and how is "praying for all their Souls" significant to them being"guilty of being poor and a minority", is it significant to you because you think that by signalling your pious virtuousness, it will be noticed and counted by "God's final verdict" on your morality......
do ppl not understand that there’s people in this jail who haven’t been convicted. they have only been accused. i’m not saying that all the people in this jail are innocent but their living in the way that they are already guilty.
and only due to the fact that they have no money for bail. and people don’t see the problem ? jail should rehabilitate not add more problems. if you really wanted them to come out of jail a decent citizen you would try to help them. not beat them. not starve them. not throw them in solitary.
Gaby Edlund NO they don't - the reason we allow this comment section to exsistvis to show the ugly face of racism and facism in America . It's sad but the world needs to have there arguments to show how much we will have to do to be a nation with equality
I agree with you wholeheartedly, yet almost everyone thinks they are getting what they deserve, imagine that!!!! All Us Getting What We Deserve????? I accept God mercy in Jesus name.
Brian, even so we were all born bad if you look through the eyes of Jesus yet he hung on that old rugged cross so we all can have a chance to be free. Who else shoes have you walked in other than your own??? Answer the riddle?
@@TheIncarceratedNation how is this racist... There's nothing about what happens right ..but how is it RACIST??
Poor Korey Wise was only 16 and had to experience all this trauma
Your gorgeous
Foxy Noxy My heart was breaking for him it was so painful to watch.
He is only 1, it happens to soo many kids
@@pauld1504 did u hit?
Is that WHAT Korey and Khalief had to go through??? America is filled with some evil demons.
Korey and Khalif are the same
@Awesome Logic There is projection in your accusation. To demonize others for what is ultimately empathy for suffering, highlights the evil spirit of you.
I called internal affairs to help my brother
@Awesome Logic you are talking pure trash...in this circumstance or any past circumstance regarding this topic is evilness.
I was arrested and put in a violent jail in Florida (Orient Road) for what was an ultimately a clerical error. Within a few minutes of being there someone threatened my life. Luckily my friends bailed me out. A clerk made a mistake and issued a warrant for my arrest. I did nothing wrong and was later cleared when I showed the judge a copy of a piece of paper that the clerk claimed I never filed. He admitted in court that he didn't see it because it was stuck to another piece of paper. There are innocent people in jail along with people who are supposed to be "innocent until proven guilty". To think I could have ended up getting hurt or killed or caught a real charge for defending myself makes me very angry. This is a JAIL, not a prison. People should be safe while they go to trial.
So sad you got out.. in time.. Bless you.. plenty innocent folks in there.. 😭
@Neal Karen
So very glad that you got out just in time.. 😇😇😇😇 watching over you.. plenty innocent folks in jail.. God bless you 🙏🙏🙏😇😇
@@alicewashington220 Thank you. Yes, plenty of innocent people. Also plenty of innocent people that will take a plea bargain and admit to something they didn't do. Even the guilty should be safe while on trial.
@neal.karn-jones exactly. Would you risk doing a year by pleading guilty or 10 by going to a jury trial? And the bail system is a JOKE..especially if you can't afford it like so many can't.
I totally understand wanting to plead guilty to something you didn't do because the risk of a trial and a long sentence is insane. And if you can't afford a good lawyer you will lose.
You are not "innocent until proven guilty", you are "guilty until you prove you're innocent".
Also there should be no prisons owned by private corporations. It leads to legal slavery.@@laitoniamonroe2412
Laws in NY need to be changed NOW. How are ppl waiting 2-4 and 6 yrs for a trial and then being found not guilty . That is SO wrong
I hear what you're saying, but everyone has the right to a speedy trial. It's only when that right is waived by a defendant that they can be locked up for such a long time before trial. Even then, a 3-4 year delay would only be caused by the defendant's legal maneuvering.
@@tomjohnson3141 Not true were talking about over 200,000 people per year trial is because of the incredible amount of people being arrested
@@TheIncarceratedNation As indicated, I hear what people are saying, but the number of arrests and pending trials do not erase the guarantees afforded by the 6th amendment of the Constitution, the "Federal Speedy Trials act", and applicable state law.
They conveniently leave out the fact that if the state cant put u on trial in 90 days u go free.. so y are they there for so long?? Because the defense has as long as they want to drag it out.. that's a fact bucko. So look into things before u say something so fucking stupid
Because it’s nyc 5 boroughs then you got Long Island NJ that’s alot of people going in and out of course your gonna be wating couple years for your hearing
For those who are saying don't do the crime clearly you didn't listen to the first minute that says 80% haven't even been convicted of a crime. What happened to innocent until proven guilty. This is a jail not a prison.
Ashleyinwonderland You are guilty of being a ghetto slumrag so shut up.
Moral Power k.
Elite Society is right!
RIP Kalief Browder wish you were here with us can’t wait till they close this disgusting place down.
Mak3.Out. Hill man fr
I always thought it was awful how they drop people off in the middle of the night in Queens Plaza with a MetroCard and just abandon them. There should be some sort of outreach center for them to get some real food, a shower to wash off the prison smell, an item of clothing that they choose, even if it’s just a hat. Let them sleep there until morning and if they want, have someone go with them to their home. If they’ve got nobody and no home, get them in a program to transition to life on the outside.
As a child we used to drive over the Throgs Neck Bridge and look down on Riker’s. Mom would make us say prayers for the prisoners. We thought it was weird. Nobody else’s Mom did that, but it’s a habit I maintain to this day although I don’t live in New York any more. I still have a few family out on Long Island and when I drive down or fly into LGA, I pray for the prisoners stuck in there. I like to think I’d never go to jail, but that’s presumption. We’re all capable of wrongdoing when pushed too hard. “There, but for the grace of God…”
R.I.P. to the man who got shot right outside his building in Brooklyn. None of the people in this documentary seem “bad.” Most of them made bad choices or just fell into a life of crime because of how they grew up. A few were truly innocent and had to serve years anyway. The man who spoke about how hard it is to get a job, I’d hire him. Everyone deserves another chance if they are sincerely trying to do right.
Korey wise, "when they see us" brought me here 💔😔
I feel you, sad sad sad situation.
@Awesome Logic stfu everybody deservs another chance
Man. Me too.
I met Korey wise..
Dannon Green you did? you went to rikkers island ?
Korey is who I'm worried about... in every review he just seem out of it. Being so young and having nothing to do with this shit has ruin his entire life. 😭
Look up Kalief Browder 😭😭😭😭
@@natashaluo5697 OMGAWDDDDDDD I bawl like a Bish watching Kalif story. Dayumn that was really really sad!!
Corey wise is fine he has a job at N
A.N with Rev Al Sharpton and runs organizations for people incarcerated needing representation...he is very socially active...his life is not ruined he makes it count
London Miliani yes a councilmember for INC Korey has been through a lot
London Miliani Thankbyou we co produced the Kalief Browder series as well
Just thinking korey went thru this @ 16 and spent most of his time in solitary
Exactly man he is a strong ass man bruh I'm so happy he not in jail no more 🙏🏽💪🏽😥❤️❤️❤️
Omg I was thinking the same thing smh.
I once knew a relative of mine, who is now deceased, and I asked him what was his time in Rikers Island like. He said to me, "David, you don't even want to see the outside of the damn place!"
Once outside, I asked him how well he was adjusting to being so-called free and in the free world. He said something to me I'll never forget when he stated, "Maybe what that guy Mark Fuhrman said was absolutely true. You don't have to incarcerate someone to put them in prison!"
Korey Wise was just a baby and they put him here, an innocent little baby. What the fuck is wrong with these monsters, how could they do that. I wish I could reach out to Korey. He went through hell and I bet he still does every night he must be tormented by these memories. / thanks for all the likes
Real Class no just because we know of two cases of innocent men doesn’t mean we know all. Many in there are innocent and just put in the system and some turn bad and others stay true to their good hearts. You can’t say they are all gritty slumbums or whatever you just called them you don’t know their story.
Rebecca Evangelean I hope every prosecutor and C O and officer that put him in this Hell gets a chance to go to the very same Hell hole
@@fanclubagainstallracesofne8553 I just think your an asshole maybe you should be in there.
This place is terrible the light skin dude with the brown collar said he went in at age 14 and he was jumped his first day. So sad for them all
Kalief Browder R.I.P. I find it pretty messed up that they are still using depictions of Kaliefs torture in that system.
They should play this documentary on big screens 24/7 across America....crime rates would plummet
@ Paul Sxton
Do you see the way the satanic/marxist/democratic scum are screaming about how bad it is to "separate illegal citizens who come from Mexico, from their families..."
What about legal black families who's ancestors have been living here for hundreds of years....why dont we make sure we're not separating black families from their father by incentivizing via welfare programs to get rid of the father...80% of black children grow up without a father....wheres the outcry???
Whats your opinion on that - you virtue signaling, marxist hypocrite?
tiarnan Excellent post
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God Bless :)
LawrinMaxwellsmpc500
Im actually from Ireland...but heres something u mite find cool....the Irish were the slaves of the English and then you guys became the slaves also....but then our people met..Irish and Africans.....and we mixed....heres our descendants....
Imagine living in the Caribbean drinking Guinness? :)
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If you listen to their song...its very Irish....but, the Irish language comes from North Africa, I can speak fluently with the Berbers of North Africa....
Our skin color doesnt matter ...our language, history and past is far more important...
God Bless...and if you ever come to Ireland I'll buy you a hundred Guinness :) :)
tiarnan crime rates are down! Mainstream news doesn't report that
It's been some years now and I want to thank all who have taken the time to watch this production .. so much more to come
Thanks for putting it out there. I honestly think America needs to see this.... See what people have went through.... Are still going through...
' I learned to use a level of violence that I never knew I was capable of' thats some real talk right there.
That statement was sad. Really sad
I always notice that a lot of these guys are incredibly intelligent and well spoken.
Angela C. Taylor yes they are smh just went down the wrong road! 😥
Cuz they read in jail duh
Keandra Fitzgerald If society would let more of these guys take what they've learned bookwise, let them use that intelligence on the outside, then we could have a successful rehabilitation program and a lot of these guys would be reformed. Sadly, they can't get jobs in corporate America based on their criminal history. These types of background policies need to be reexamined, maybe one day our society will give these people a better chance at success after jailtime.
This is what Kalief and Korey had to live through❤.
And knowing that you're innocent? Talk about a Bad Trip!
And many other black man. Luckily we have our people fighting for prison reform. Going to this place for allegedly stealing a backpack. It's sick and disgusting.
I keep seeing this I need to look it up
Korey got it worse
Rikers is hell on earth. Period. I remember going every other weekend in the late 90s when I was only 7 years old to visit my father and it was even worse back then. It’s still the worst prison in the country and everyone in there has either less than a year to go, are awaiting trial, or waiting to be sent up top (upstate) if you have a year and a day or more. At least nowadays there’s a half ass attempts to Bring to light the injustices going on there. I just remember it felt like you were in a nightmare crossing that bridge. That bus ride over feels like your on your way to your death and they treat the visitors like inmates themselves even me as a kid. Luckily, my father had no issues when he was there because he was in his mid 40s and considered an old timer Italian street dude raised in the South Bronx to most of the young guys there. Even during visiting hours the other guys would pass by to sit with the people visiting them and say whattup pops! That placed scarred me just by visiting. Can’t even imagine actually being there full time. RIP Dad love and miss you. Fuck that place!
Watching this and all I can think of is Kalief Browder. RIP wherever you are kid, safe in your mothers arms I hope, both taken too soon. 😢That poor kid and his poor mama dying because of the injustice and inhumanity of many not just a few CO’s. What a horrifying account from these men and women.
I don't have a problem with prisons. I also don't think that all prisoners , regardless of crime, should be housed in the same facilities. Someone who has unpaid parking tickets shouldn't be in with someone has 4 or 5 bodies hanging over their head.
KALIEF BROWDER
KOREY WISE
WE LOVE YOU ❤️
RIP 😇🙏😇🙏
Thank you
We should have jails like Norway where there's actual reform
@Gary Mcguckin Maybe that person is related to one of them or maybe they were friends. Or, maybe she just has compassion.
The first guy had a similar story to Khalief. Didn't do anything but got pointed out and sent to Rikers. I've got a feeling that the same thing must have happened to thousands of kids. It's beyond f'd up
Being a correctional officer in a prison made me realize how tough these inmates live from the food to where they sleep. I pray to God I never jeopardize my freedom ever and end up inside.
You should stop supporting that system for your morality’s sake rather than doing it just because you need the money
I havent even been charged with anything but DUS and contempt in 19 years. Yet ive been arrested about a dozen times since my release in 2006.
I pray you stay safe and are a positive influence in there...we need GOOD corrections officers that actually care about the population they govern (for lack of better term).
Whatever happened to the right to a speedy trial?
I watched this and other documentaries like it because I've never been in jail and I have an inquisitive mind about what really goes on inside. Hearing these stories makes me physically sick. Every single one of those correction officers need to pay for their crimes also. They're doing worse to the inmates than some of the inmates did to get locked up.
Disgusting!!!
so we had to fight for that we will cover that in our next episode of killing rikers the podcast. that had to be renamed Kaliefs Law , we also had to produce a entire series to support the bill. no freedoms are ever given so we still are fighting for other city legislation
I've been in jail.. because I committed a crime and belonged there.. I didn't blame anybody.. did the time like a man and did not do it again. They treated us like a treated them.. so I can't take these lies.. all bull.. like all the bull about the bail system..all lies
@@johnadams2063 ur such a small minded individual John Adams. Dont u realize things could be different in a different prison johnny? Come on man use ur head Adam go look at some other prison documentaries or something. Talkin bout u did ur time like a man. 😆 lol
@@johnadams2063 have u ever heard of the brooklyn 5 johnny? Tf
This isn't a place of rehabilitation. This is Hell
not supposed to be about rehabilitation, it's about punishment
@@mikerubin22 stfu
@@mikerubin22 u asshole. Jail is supposed to rehabilitate the human to be a productive member of society. Idk why u think c.o's beating ppl is ok u fckin dick. Ur last name says it all.
this place is doing its job scaring people out of crime so they dont return look at most soft prisons where most of the inmates are 4th or 5th time returnees. the soft prisons dont work rikers works
@@mikerubin22 I thought the narrative changed from crime and punishment to crime and rehabilitation. Isn’t there a notion that you can judge the progressiveness of a society by how it treats its prisoners? Suddenly, Sweden and others Scandinavian countries come to mind.
"I'm gonna go by the park" big mistake." Wow The Central Park five had mad the same mistake too.
I feel so much better thinking my abuser suffered when at Rikers. I couldn't hit back as a kid. I hope you gave him hell every day he was in there. Some of you might not have deserved being hurt. He was not one of them.
I heard a prison guard interviewed once who wisely said, "The punishment in prison is not being able to leave." It's not being abused the way these people were. I am always upset when I hear people like the one man who had his addicted mother and grandmother abuse him. That abuse wasn't his fault.
so true. the constitution states that there shall be no cruel & unusual punishment , yet amendments have created the loophole that allows a person to be returned to slavery once arrested.
@@TheIncarceratedNation Agreed. Together, we must end this crisis of forced slavery in inhumane conditions. I am aboard this change.
Many ignorant comments on here. I spent 8 months at Rikers. It was no joke. It was not fun. I learned my lesson and haven't returned. Not a life to live for anybody.
welcome and yeah... this is the place for all of the ... well what you said !!
Jesus, that must have been crazy. Would you mind sharing what Borough you're from and what the story is?
@@lesterdiamond6190 she's from the bronx and prostitution was what she was In for
@@bleedgreen4221 Thanks, damn 8 months in that hell hole must have been awful.
Why what happen
They should never ever place juveniles into jails or prisons with adults. Its messed up.
I totally agree with you
Nah. If theyre murderers? Fuck em
I think of the Central Park 5... Poor Corey sent to Rikers as a child and to boot, INNOCENT. 😢 all of them were innocent and locked up. Omg I’m bawling just thinking about the hell they endured!!! RIP Kalief Browder ...
Stumbled on this. This is probably one of the best videos I’ve seen on UA-cam. You can feel the pain these guys went through.
I see alot of people in the comments are so self righteous it's sickening.
Awesome Logic fucking racist
I see a lot blaming others for their criminal history.
People who don't commit violent crime have a right to be self-righteous.
@@jgc1077 but what else have you done? Probably alot.
@@poca007 you sound like a bitch
rest in peace Kalief Browder
Exactly who I think of when i hear anything about Rikers.
Me too. So sad
May his death not be in vain!!!!
He hung himself, that's not resting in peace
@@lucaswiggins1039
It's his peace.
The system isn’t designed to make you better, it’s only purpose is to make you worse.
Golden Lashon an hour behind I agree
Real Class Exactly what I said, BITCH.
Real Class You’re literally obsessed with me now😌😂
Real Class You’ve been saying the same things over and over, it’s boring actually. I’ll just pray for the few brain cells you have left. God bless you, you need it.
This is only at this moment you realized it ?
im proud to say that it took us over ten years but now we have ended solitary confinement in the state and now all city facilities. what started as films and advocacy to close rikers is now a movement to abolish the system that traps so many. closing rikers is not just about a jail but ending a system that has been alive since slavery. im thankful for all that has tuned in and watched this doc , there will be more of these coming soon.
Just one of many.
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@Jacs333because you're a weirdo that has no empathy
Kalief Browder's doco on Netflix brought me here and all I can say is WOW 😥😪😪 RIP KALIEF 💙❤
Yea he was a real one
I'm all about people going to jail for breaking the law, but this is ridiculous!!! People are there for minor infractions and to await their court dates all the way up to murder, and they treat them the same way. It ain't right, and I don't know why there was only one of these former inmates that sued them!!!! If enough people sue them for their behavior, it'll bring attention. They'll have no excuses at that point because too many people will be watching. They'll have the fear of being reprimanded and the whole world knowing about it. Something needs to be done about this!!!!!!!!!!!!! We all know shit like this happens in jail, but the problem I have is when jail staff is involved in it. They're not doing their jobs, and they're putting people in danger. They're not playing a minor roll.....fuckin' sickening!!!
@Upscale Club Wow....learn how to spell. I wouldn't make high-and -mighty comments when u can't spell. There isn't a moral court, and not everyone is the same. But if there was a moral court, ud be judged because of ur prejudicial and racial off-the-wall comments. Not everyone in a racial group are the same.
Jay P., dick doctor was there in early 2000s. I saw him too and never got paid either but heard it was only like 150 bucks if you did.
@Upscale Club is right telling off this trashbag city ugly.
I went to Rikers Island in 1973 for burglary according to the police, all i did was go into a burned out furniture store to look for furniture i can take home, was caught had a $50.00 bail, money my family didn't have, went to Rikers in the 2 weeks i was there i saw so much shit, i begged my brother to get me out of here, i was on 17 yrs old. My brother and his friend pulled an armed robbery at a local business got me out jail, after the case was dismissed i went back to school, graduated HS, joined the Army, did 20 years, retired now disabled veteran 80%, Jail / prison is hell, please stay away from crime, it doesn't pay.
Stop lying 🤥 or I will snitch
Bless you
Rev Benny passed away in 2022 from cancer, Damien Stapleton went back to jail. Ismael Nazario does TED talks & helps released inmates get jobs. Five is battling health issues. Candie Hailey means was found innocent and charges were dropped. but she’s has many mental disorders from being in solitary confinement. Marcell Neal still out but also have many mental disorders from being in solitary confinement. Couldn’t find anything on tariq Barnes. Raymond Yu is out and currently a successful rapper. Ralph nunez has an consent decree in honor of his name, for a plan on prison reform. Robert Hinton was sadly shot and killed a couple months after receiving his settlement.
Thanks for the updates. ❤️
A lot of these stories need to be shown to the people who think it’s “cool” to go to jail or who don’t care about the consequences of what they do. On the flip side imagine how horrible it is for someone to go to jail for something they didn’t do who would endure all this
sphinx8 I am so glad you did a flip side because this is not about the guilty, it’s about the innocent, even the guilty are still human beings. May God save us in Jesus name.
They used Kalief Browder videos getting beat up there for no reason. Just like Korey Wise story Kalief Browder story was so sad too. R.I.P Kalief Browder.
Thinking the same exact thing was actually looking too see if anyone commented on it..
Both of their stories was so heartbreaking what they must have went thru 😢😢😢
Close Knit Community I was only commenting on Korey and Kalief story how and much the justice system failed them and, regardless of what the other ex inmates have done no one deserves that kind of treatment. How Rikers is still operating is mind baffling and, I’m not wearing a Halloween costume that’s my graduation gown.
@@MsTeo91 don't pay him any mind, he's just a racist bitch
Close Knit Community I don’t know what you’re problem is but you need to relax it’s not that deep 😕
why am I not surprised dude was shot dead after being rewarded money from NY. pretty sure we can all agree who was involved.
"The land of the free"... Such jails are a disgrace for every civilized country in the world. How can a rich country like USA have that animal standards? An offender who comes there with a minor offense, will come out as a psyched out monster who couldn't do good for society. Great plan, well done!
Yeah don’t do crime.
@stillmatic109 wow that is the most helpful comment I’ve ever read. What a genius mastermind u are.
@@leninmikhailov6734 With a last name like that you wouldn’t understand. Leave this one to the true Americans 🇺🇸
@stillmatic109 Lol man I wish I was u. Ur so cool. You just beam with wisdom.
@@leninmikhailov6734 Enough wisdom to know “I wish I was u” is not proper grammar.
This is my second watch of this very disturbing documentary. I might watch it again. I am impressed by the men and women who were interviewed. Each person spoke with clarity, dignity and balance as they told their stories. Obviously, there is a problem with Rikers and the systems that maintain this legal torture chamber. Deplorable.
yes this is wh we fight so hard to make the change NyC
needs
American prison is the biggest revenue it's all a business and its sick. I did 10 fucking years for 1 bag of dope... 1 BAG , first time I was 17!! It ruined my life forever
Damn bro, that's fucked up. What state was that?
China mac my guy been watching him on UA-cam since he started his channel about jail and music. Now he has really grown his channel so it can get better if you put your mind to it. I remember him talking about being involved in a documentary about Rikers.
The white lady was lucky they allowed her to hold her baby if she was black or brown that would not had happen
My sister is white they never allowed any touching at all I think it depends on what your charges are I’m sure some people are just racist
Neal Chestnut 😂
I worked in department of corrections. For Florida. The level of corruption in rikers is disgusting.... They need to fire every single staff member and start over.... I worked in a prison that was run clean and a inmate could serve his sentence with out walking around with a target on the back. Because the officers did they're job!!! I'm disgusted by the stories no one should go through that level of corruption in a American run facility. Something huge has got to change.
@@captaincaveman3025 there no excuse for this
So you worked around diciplint inmates who were not carpetbaggers like the ones at Rikers? You are a co?
YOU GONNA TELL ME THAT BECAUSE THE GUARDS WERE NOT BAD THAT THE INMATES WERE GOOD AND JUST DID THEIR TIME AND DIDNT FIGHT AND TRY TO KILL EACH OTHER OR TRY TO KILL ANY GUARDS ??????? YOU THINK IM STUPID THERE IS NO PRISON WERE THE INMATES ARE ALL GOOD AND JUST WANT TO DO THEIR TIME IN PEACE!!!!!!!!~ U ARE FULL OF FUCKING SHIT !!!!!
Madam Jewelz, there taking try out auditions at Rikers for the movie=Bride Of Dracula vs.The Spook Face Bitch.
Madam jewelz did you have a relationship with an inmate as a CO? Not judging just curious.
I have watched this documentary so many times...I feel everyone's pain, the guy though, that actually sued, but was ultimately murdered before getting compensated....my Lord...
Thank You,Making this Doc took alot and im still working on the second one currently. But being a activist producing these help in our work to End this system. Your words mean alot Thanks!
that was sad to see...they should shut that prison down..,
@@TheIncarceratedNation I have also watched it several times after hearing about it on vlad tv. I never knew Rikers was this bad. It sounds like a place that would be in a 3rd world country or something. Thank you for sharing your work. When do you think you will put another one out?
Which one was it?? the one with the shades on 😏
@@TheIncarceratedNation Thanks for the documentary ! You did good✌
My brother was in here and I always remember him telling me a story about the guy in the cell next to him who had mental issues. He told the guard he wanted to kill himself and the guard told him go ahead. Everytime the guard did a round the guard would go up to the guys cell and taunt him and say " I thought you were going to kill your self"
Kailef and Korey there stories are both so sad
I just saw when they see us and still crying. I dont have the heart to watch Time the story of Khalif Bowen
@@beautyforashestv5959 don't because it's too sad it had me so fucked up I had to pop my anxiety pills
@@imonthomas9487 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 Whaaaaaaaaat! Im already crying everyday about Korey. I wont watch it
@@imonthomas9487 I'm glad I watched both gave me passion and some ideas about helping ex cons if I ever get brave enough move to America.
@@natashaluo5697 good for you 🙂
the american prison system is absolutly disgusting.
If I were to imagine how Hell would be, Riker’s Island seems like a good comparison.
Edit: I just read that in 2015, the City settled a lawsuit about inmates being beaten by correction officers for 3.5 million. Then I saw another one written in 2017 that even though changes have been made to the place, violence is still just as bad. I see that there is no solution to the problem.
For all the comments I’ve read that are kind of negative, these people are somebody’s child, parent, sister, brother, etc. but most of all, they are American citizens. It’s disgusting to take advantage of people when they are down. The only thing I know is that We will all face God’s Judgement one day.
Thank you for the video. 🙏❤️
Melissa Abercrombie my son died in prison in 2018 after being in that transfer unit 6 days. It’s 2020 and they have yet to explain what happened to him. I was told 2 different stories about how he passed, which one am I to believe. Neither, because two stories mean there’s a lie somewhere. Then the warden at that time told me “ my son was fighting demons on the inside “, but my son was not depressed.
A1 Confidence oh dear. I’m am so not a fan of H and Markle. That’s kind of funny because I was just watching a Murky Meg video and read your reply. 😂
H and Markle will be judged by God one day. As will I. Sometimes I get this feeling, compassion or empathy, because i would wish for people to feel compassion for my family if I became a Shadythug.
And guess what else? I’m a Trump supporter. Trump 2020🥰
God Bless You 🇺🇸
Stephanie n Erica I’m sorry for your loss. In my state, in my county actually, there have been a lot of inmate deaths being reported in the news. Yes, two stories does seem suspicious. I hope you get your answers and I’m saying a prayer things will work out in the best way possible for you!❤️
As someone in HR that has tried to hire an ex-con, it is quite difficult, as potential employers are concern about the safety of their current employees. Most employees are uncomfortable and concern about the violence. However, I worked at a security company in college that did hire many ex-cons.
Same for hiring veterans. Employers are concern that candidates with exposure to war or post dramatic trauma, in their background will have an issue adapting to Civilian life and unfortunately most of them do have issues.
This is sooo heart wrenching. How can people treat people like this. I think of Korey Wise, innocent, 16 years old boy, sent to rikers Island. So sad.
H. M. He didn’t spend all 16 at rikers
@Renaud Villacis Never been in jail nor prison. Sorry for anyone who had to experience that kind of life
@@danielaviles1335 I know, but he was 16 years old, when he was sent to rikers Island.
So disturbing! Why can’t there be actual rehabilitation centers. Prison just seems like another form of slavery.
It is.
Danielle Silas doesn’t seem like it, prison was designed for black enslavement from the your community to your prison
This is truly sad! No words can express the level of disgust that I have to those that allowed those viscious things to happen on their watch!
4,305,937 views since Apr 17, 2017, it's that time for the second & third chapters of this Doc Series to begin. What's your Rikers Story? Want to Be in The Next installment Email us some details about your time, don't forget to include when and where incarceratednationnetwork@gmail.com
What other prisons are you going to do this for?? I've heard lots of stories like these coming out of McNeil Island and Walla Walla in Washington state.
That's a damn shame how that boy was beat by his own grandmother. A grandmother is the one person you truly feel will love you and then to have his mother take him to the hospital and never come back. Thats just fucked up. He has no ability to be stable. Its a damn shame.
Yeah that's what he says, he's a drug a addict, a freaking junkie, he'll say anything, minimize his situation.
Why the fuck aren’t these CO’s being charged and punished 🤬🤬🤬 I’m watching this from Australia
Thank you to all the white people that actually understand the seriousness of this and aren't just here being racist asf. I dont understand why people watch other peoples struggle just to talk shit? If you don't like us why even be on here watching this? It's disgusting asf. I don't like having to point out race, but yall make it so damn hard.
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
I spent a year there. The co were just as corrupt as the inmates. The mail lady would allow cash paper money to come into the jail. This is so inmates could buy tobacco, marijuana or what ever was being pushed . C/O would give certain things to certain inmates to sell. I wouldnt beilve it if I didnt see the shit myself.
In your opinion do you think prison would be a better place if people couldnt get the drugs? I think most people use drugs for escapism and stress relief. Do you think you would've been any safer If they couldnt get their fix? not saying that what the employees were doing was right, but idk, they could've been actually helping to stave off a few frustration and desperation fueled assaults and suicides if that's what it takes to keep some peoples minds occupied for a while instead of having nothing to do but think about whose going to be their next victim because that's the only thing they know to blow off steam. I doubt that's actually the employee's motivation for sneaking drugs in but if it has the unintended benefit of saving life and limb...again I'm not saying it's right for them to do.
At 29:42 that’s kalief browder getting beat up. Idk why this innocent man is even in this video. Put some respect on a juvenile who beat the system but was put in jail for the content of his skin. RIP Kalief Browder
Such a sad story what they did to him and his suicide was heart breaking
This is a great documentary. I now understand why people say I will never go back to jail and rather shoot it out with cops and die as opposed to go back to jail. Sad man.
🦅🌸🦅🙏🏽🦅🌸🦅👵🏽👋🏾 Kindly stay free & out of these hell holes! Understand though!
It's disgusting that in the richest city in the richest country in the world that we do this to children. I'm from NYC and we should all be ashamed that this happens.
New York, New York is two different cities yes there's the richest city that also houses the poorest district community in the entire United States of America right in the south Bronx congressional district #15 ( please google that fact) what's even sadder is the NYers pay over 200,000 per person in NYC jails and about 90-1000 per person in state facilities.also why its the most expensive place to live at NYS has 62 counties over 50 of them are prison towns, meaning the prison was built then the world town was built and named after it,
NYC has 11 jails but we also have federal prisons, for-profit prisons, and jails and of course, the signature jails we got one that floats but leaks, we have 400 acres of the nation's largest jail that's an island, also kids jails scattered all around shopping areas & projects. NYC jails and uses solitary 4 times over the national average. not only was Rikers island which used to house captured slaves one of the first jails built in 1650 but to be honest NYS was the first to build prisons as an income-producing system for cities.
Correct response!!! Where are the rich? Heartlessly chasing more riches??
At the end of the day inmates are human as well. They just hit a rough patch in life. We all have them. It just hasn’t been exposed. Praying for their souls.
To everyone thinking that everyone in jail are criminals, gotta learn how the American system works. In America you dont have to commit a crime to end up in jail, just gotta pray and count your blessings that it wasn't u that ended up in there innocent. This could happen to anybody sadly, unless you're rich.
@Intellipower my definition of innocent is being convicted of a crime you didnt commit... lol
@Intellipower or put in jail for long periods of time with a high ass bail, for a crime you didnt commit.
I was celebrating my 21 birthday. We were walking to another bar a cop was standing in a doorway so I stopped and asked if he wanted to have a drink with us. Instantly I was in handcuffs and spent the next week in jail. I had never been in trouble before or after. This is the system. Bail was $1000
I absolutley do not hate cops. This cop was random and probably had a bad night. I'm talking about a week in jail with 1000 dollar bail. This was also the first time in my life I had drank alcohol. I thought what happened shouldn't have.
Facts
Who came here because of junior ?
Me
I did a total of 2 years as an inmate within the NYC DOC in 1990 for drug sales in the East New York section of Brooklyn and for also impersonating one of New Yorks finest in 1994 while shaking down illegal establishments in Manhattan. From Bklyn house to C76, C74, C73, C72, OBC something, HDM & NIC. I went to damn near every building on Rikers island. Back then the Blacks ran 1 phone, and the Latinos ran the other phone, but the inmates who couldn't use the phones had to use the collect call option on the 3rd phone. My slot time on the phone was from 7-8pm. I was good in every sense as a neutral who had no gang affiliations. I knew people throughout NYC, so I was good wherever I landed. I even knew a few correction officers from the streets, and even dated one, so even when I came back from up north for resentencing, I was good. But you really had to watch your back at all times. Regardless of who you knew, Rikers Island is considered Gladiator school. It's been over 20 years since I have roamed the corridors of Rikers. I have never looked back. People, places and things is a huge part of my life today, (now 57 years of age). The journey continues, but life is much better today than those knuckle head years of the 80's & 90's. Peace. Rist.1. Top!
God bless you my brother . I'm 43 now and I'm from Brooklyn but moved to Harlem and man was it rough coming up and getting locked and landing on the island . People don't understand how crazy that was then .... If you can survive there you can survive anywhere . I been locked up in different states but nothing compares to the island.
I heard HDM is wild, like dudes literally in the halls like they’re out on the street in the hood
I have so much empathy and respect for all the former inmates because they were open and honest about their experiences. I pray for their healing.
@@fanclubagainstallracesofne8553 You are a psychopath that enjoys the pain and punishment of others. Either you are happy to allow them to be raped and abused b/c because they committed a crime or you don't have the intellectual intelligence to look past your own prejudices to see the worth in people. So..bye.
I know it's ridiculous most of them are in there on bonds less than a grand! So basically they're being punished because they don't have money! Because remember you're supposed to be innocent until proven guilty which we all know is the other way around! a lot of innocent men and women plead guilty just to get out of that hellhole. #ISTANDWITHKALIEF Browder!
Do you have empathy for the victims???
@@joedt1214 do you have common sense?
This SHOULD NOT be happening.
If you haven't heard the story of what this jail did to Khalief Browder, look it up. That shit happened in America, at Riker's Island to an innocent kid.
This is really insightful, thank you for the documentary! I appreciate the views from all different types of people!
All yall need to watch the Kalief Browder documentary on Netflix. If that doesn't make you sad, mad, and questionable about Rikers Island, then you aren't human!!!
Billy Ho Yes I cry every time I hear his name..Truly hearbreaking..that poor boy never got a break! Glad Jay Z bought this to the screen
@@debrahall7325 Hell yes!!! I live down south and we dont mess with Jay too tough, but the fact that he did something like that and it ACTUALLY MADE A CHANGE, I can't do anything but salute him!!! But about what you said, the part where he is getting harassed because folks thought he was PAID when he got home and when his Mom died from pretty much the stress of it all, just KILLED ME!!!!
Billy Ho I'm in tears writing this reply...yes in the end it literally killed his mother..but she fought as hard as she could..its so heartwrenching that this poor boy never got justice in life or death.and the fact that this place still exists is sickening and inhumane!
Makaida Burke-Solomon MY heart just can't take it..this just took a roll in my heart...truly
Billy ho every time I see that house where the window is after he took his life and after his mom passed was just chilling..
It’s absolutely absurd that this is for pre-trial detainees. This is for people who are ACCUSED of crimes, not already convicted and found guilty. This is where you go when you’re accused and too poor to pay bail. If that doesn’t give ever American chills then something is seriously wrong. Close Rikers now. Smaller and safer jails for NYC.
BomChickyBowWow it kills me that more Americans aren’t absolutely disgusted by this one very horrifying fact. It should grate against the conscience of anyone Supporting the way our penal system works. People have to pay for competent defense, and you have to pay for the ability to wake up in your own bed and see your family, before you’ve ever actually been convicted of a crime- and this is just as true for nonviolent criminals as for violent....
It’s a fucking SHAME.
The thing is you two slumscums are not real Americans. The middle class and aristocrats are. So shut up. Especially you BowWowigger.
Yup in the beginning they said nearly 80% haven't been convicted yet. They send many people there just because they can't afford or know anyone that can help bail them out in bookings before they get to Riker's. This is crazy smh.
Of all the bragging I typically hear from convicts, these guys aren't bragging. They definitely have PTSD.
I was there in 2000 not a fun place? Trust me when I tell you I’m gonna make sure I’m never going back. I was 17 and I learned my lesson 👊✊ NYC BX
BX Love !
Damn imagine going through all that being wrongfully arrested. thats brutal.
@Intelligent Club imagine you actually understanding my comment .. try telling that to the central park 5 ... they were decent citizens but still convicted beacuse of (well you know why).stick to the topic buddy.