what are your suggestions for rikers island? >> i think you keep that you charge the staff that violate the law and they're locked up. >> reporter: it's not hard to imagine the life he might have led if he had made it. >> i have the medal hanging on my bed. >> reporter: you see it in the remnants of the life and the people he left behind. like elizabeth p. yums community director at bronx community college, who worked with khalif. she says she's working on getting khalif his associate's degree posthumously. >> thank you so much. >> what do you want the world to remember of your son? >> to remember him for the standup person that he was. he was a good person. >> reporter: the kind of person who turned down a plea bargain on principle. whose story may help save others like him. >> if i would have just pled guilty, my story would have never been heard. nobody would have took the time to listen to me. i would have been just another criminal. >> our thanks to producer katie k ku. >>> the 2016 presidential election. plus broad city. h

he tried to take his life at rikers.id you notice a decline in his personality, depression despair? at what point did you notice that? >> i noticed that when he would be there for like going on two years, he used to tell me how the guards used to stalk him and how he used to beg for food but they wouldn't give it to him. >> and when they gave it to him, they gave him like half-eaten portions like somebody had already dug into it. it was horrible. >> he was losing weight. did you notice his physical appearance changing? >> no. sometimes i did. sometimes i didn't. >> and how was your mother through all this? >> my mother she was very upset. she was crying a lot and she couldn't take it. she visited him every day faithfully. >> every day? >> every day my mother went to visit him. she would be in pain. she still went to go visit him and she had -- kalief didn't tell her everything but he told her enough. like my brother said, with the starving he was beaten just about every day. we would give him money to put in his account

by now the beatings he endured in likers rikers had been seen millions of times online. >> what did rikers do to your son? >> it destroyed him. it destroyed him. mentally. >> has anyone apologized to you? for rikers? >> no. >> from the prosecutor's office? >> no. >> what do you hope happens now? >> i want them to be responsible, to admit that it was their fault that my son is dead. he spent three years in hell. >> it sounds like you're in that hell now. >> i will be in hell until the day i die. because i found my son hanging. if your child is murdered, you have an immediate anger towards that person. and you want that person found and pay for what they did to your child. it's not one person, it's a whole system, that destroyed my son. and i want them all to pay. >> i deeply wish we hadn't lost him but he did not die in vain. >> reporter: new york did away with solitary confinement for 16 and 17-year-olds. plans were announced to fix crowded dockets and courts to ensure the right to a speedy trial. there are also calls for change to the cash bail system. currently only 12% of defendants in

held at rikers for more than a thousand days without a trial before he was released. he never recovered from what turned into a brutal detention and committed suicide earlier this month. jennifer gonnerman is a staff writer for the new yorker magazine. she profiled browder during his three years in jail and has been reporting on rikers for more than a decade. jennifer gonnerman explain how kalief browder after years of detention, how did he become the face of this story. >> i medical cal early -- i met kalief and wrote a profile about him for "the new yorker" which ran last october. one thing that drew me to kalief's story is the fact that almost everything that could go wrong in the criminal justice system had happened to him. you mentioned some of the things, but he was in jail, in rikers island for three years waiting for a trial that never happened. ultimately the charges against him were dropped. he endured abuse by inmates and guards. he spent about two years in solitary confinement. his story is extraordinary in the details of how horrific it was. and as you me

, is this a problem unique to rikers?rk? to bad funding and backlogs and cases they can't get to and delays that -- these lawyers are requesting a week delay and it ends up being a six-week delay. does it happen everywhere else? >> it does. i began my career as pa public defender so i share your experience there is. but i've also prosecuted prison crimes against inmates. even if this young man had been tried and convicted, we may very well be here having this same discussion because of some of the things we saw on that videotape due to the delay, because that's the first issue, justice delayed is justice denied. the second issue is we as the state taken a oath to protect the folks that we house within our correctional institutions and when you get somebody that's treated like this, whether or not they're guilty or innocent, we have serious concerns about reform and that's only beginning to happen now. >> and we're talking about people that we have a duty to protect if they here in custody. you can say what you want about

but life after rikers was never the same.rs holds about 11,000 prisoners on a given day, many of them awaiting trial. that includes hundreds of 16 and 17-year-olds who are tried as adults under new york state law. last year a federal civil rights investigation found that inmates at rikers undergo a deep-seated cultural violence. this year mayor de blasio and others implemented new things among them new limits on use of force, pilot program to test body cameras for corrections officers, computer system to track use of force by officers thousands more security cameras and federal monitor to oversee reforms. they also have the right to keep teenage prisoners out of rikers altogether. is it a success? is this a win? >> definitely a step in the right direction. however, someone who spent the year on rikers 20 years ago and experienced exactly what we saw in that doj report, i would argue that it's not enough. the thing about rikers what it doesn't turn out in public safety it turns out in human an carnage. it's really about the cu

inside rikers island and set to appear in court this week. >> beaten to a pulp. a pulp.nd now to destroy any young mind. bill: they get there for a reason. a new mom comes home from hospital to find that she has been robbed. >> check out this video of two thieves these entering an apartment in new york city and stealing the packages. only found out the list all the packages from it as crazy. a story that you and the viewers need to pay attention to. the viewers can be a help in a help in bringing justice. pregnant with twins, due in august. in labor for 50 hours. spend the next week in the hospital at mount sinai beth israel. a harrowing week in the hospital. she was discharged but the twins stay for another couple of months. when she and her husband got home to there apartment on west 46th and 9th avenue they saw the livery sticker for fedex $500 breast pump but there was no package. >> an essential item breast pump which is important for children to develop. >> the nypd is investigating and i talked to her husband about that. >> i believe they did release to the major

the problem with rikers is rikers.t of the matter is we have a culture there we can't break. particularly or children. we need to move them immediately. all in all we should shut the facility decentralize, have a shah rink the number of prison beds and hold officers accountable. >> we have a policy solution here, but i'm also not naive enough to think that a good policy solution is sufficient. there's politics here. i want to play a sound of rand paul talking about kalief's case. case. >> he died this weekend, he committed suicide. his name was kalief browder, he was a 16-year-old black teenager from the bronx. for goodness sakes r are we going let people be rained murdered pillaged in prison because they're convicted -- he wasn't even convicted. when i see people angry and upset. i'm not here to excuse violence in the cities. when i see people angry, i understand where some of the anger is coming from. >> that's a republican from kentucky saying this has gone too far. i wonder if we are seeing the political needle mov

jennifer you covered kalief browder's story once he was released from rikers.his happiness. how could this have happened? he spent two years in solitary for what? >> you know it is a straight up american tragedy. almost beyond words. he was arrested in the spring of 2010 for a robbery he said he had not done. he was walking down the street late at night with a friend coming home from a party. a police car pulled up with somebody in the back seat who accused him of robbing them and there was confusion whether it happened a week before two weeks before. from the first moment he said i didn't do anything. i didn't do anything wrong and there was no evidence that he had done anything wrong. there was no stolen property. and he thought he was going to the precinct with the police officers for an hour or two and ended up staying in custody for three years. and the reason it dragged on and on and on is because he insisted on his innocence. he said i didn't do anything wrong. i'm not going to plead guilty. i want to take my case to trial. it was his insistence on his r

he was held in rikers for thee years without trial.ght. >> i want to continue that conversation and play a little reaction from senator rand paul who long before this tragic suicide had talked about this as a problematic case. he links it to policy something we're about to talk about, he links it to why there is anger in places like baltimore and a cycle between police and civilian conduct. let's listen to that and get your reaction. >> i have been telling the story for about and year and a half two years now. it makes me sad. i thought i not talking or telling the story again but i thought this young man's memory should help to change things. he died this weekend. he committed suicide. he was a 16-year-old black teenager from the bronx. for goodness sakes, are we going to let people be raped, murdered and pillaged in prison because they have been convicted? he wasn't even convicted. so when i see people angry and upset, i'm not here to excuse violence in the cities but when i see people angry, i understand where some of the anger is c

he is only from the first no one i met him, stories about being abused on rikers island.ver doubted him for a moment, but i think as an outsider, it is a must impossible to believe what he lived through. when you see it on the videos -- it was disturbing to watch those videos several months ago when we put them online, but to watch them in the wake of what happened, it is a must -- it is unbelievable. juan: you have reviewed the videos with him before deciding whether to publish them or post them. then you talk about his reaction to seeing or reliving it through the videos? >> from the first moment i met him, he said je, yet to get thatn video when this officer threw me to the ground and assaulted me. i thought, how am i going to get a video get them than i thought, how does he know the exact? he had an incredible recall for dates and for what had happened him. he knew this assaulted happened right on camera. i sat next to him and we watched it. on the one hand, it is like incredibly disturbing to watch. on the other hand, is gratified that people would finally know what

at rikers island. >> i hope the relationship can work.'s not possible, but it really is possible because i met my wife, literally, a month prior to me being arrested. and we have been together ever since. >> ready? >> mickey and colbert, whose wedding is now two days away, have been cleared to visit one part of the jail nearly as popular as the yard, the barbershop. >> it's different. >> gray hair in the front. >> the barbers are also inmates with prior experience from the outside. they are selected by officer bryant. who strives to make the barbershop something special. >> i try to duplicate the same atmosphere that we would find in the street at any other barbershop. >> what do you get the dye for old men? he needs some of that. >> just try to keep the fellows at ease. have something to get off their chest or something to talk about, they can talk with me or the homies in here. that's what it's all about. to meet your barbershop peers. right here is barbershop three, baby. >> makes you feel a little human again because your hair be look

jail. >> he had a bunch of charges from rikers. assaulting other inmates, assaulting staff, and he definitely has a following. a lot of people under him that will do whatever he tells them to do. they have to do it, otherwise, they'll be in trouble. by sending him out here, it kind of strips him of his power and he's more isolated. >> records indicate and mickey concurs the two hour drive from rikers to suffolk was not without incident. >> i'm like, yo, where am i going? they said, you're going far. whatever. i'm like, no, suit up. when i turned around, it was like fight time. we started fighting. he whooped me out. hog tied me and brought me to suffolk county. i've been a hostage ever since. this was my career. this was what i wanted to be. i wanted to wear red flag and bang for my gang since i was like this. and that's the honest to god truth. i never -- it sounds so stupid now. but i never wanted to do nothing else. i'm living my dream. this is what your dream was when i grew up. >> investigator maunds is with the jail's interna

. >> reporter: chaos inside new york riker's island prison.his disturbing security camera footage from 2010 shows the gang beating browder and barging into a cell and beating him again. >> this seems like "lord of the flies" what is going on here? >> utter confusion. there is obviously a lack of control. they do not have the capacity. and this is not to demean the officers. they are clearly outnumbered. and they do not have the physical capacity to totally protect the inmate. >> reporter: this video was obtained by "the new yorker" magazine. two years after the gang beating, this video shows browder thrown to the ground after browder appears to say something to him. >> verbal assaults don't count. if we in corrections responded to every verbal statement that is made derogatory in nature we would be fighting every minute of every hour. that is common place. it is part of the culture. >> reporter: browder was sent to riker's for allegedly stealing a backpack in the bronx. he was ultimately released, the charges dropped. >> no apology or nothing.

there are lots of problems out at rikers island. as donna said kalief browder was innocent. he didn't steal the backpack. it's clear from the facts of the first long "new yorker" story, and his problem was he didn't want to plead guilty. >> guilty. >> to something that he didn't do. and so he should have of course, had his day in court. he didn't. >> and that's one of the things that is so stunning. i believe most people regardless of whether they're guilty or not end up pleading guilty just to minimize the time that they're spending in jail. the other piece i want to talk to you about is how can -- how is it sanctioned to throw a man into solitary jail -- solitary confinement, for that amount of time? i mean, he emerged having deep psychological disturbance. took his own life this weekend. i mean how is that sanctioned in any way by penal code? >> well there have been absolutely no constraints on use of solitary confinement at rikers island up until very recently. and the guards who run rikers island have been -- have not been held accountable for the brutality that they ha

. >> this week we reported on the tragic suicide of 22-year-old khalif router i young man held at rikersthout being held in a trial. and during his time he said he suffered repeated abuse at the hands of in mates and guards. last saturday he hanged himself at his home with an air-conditioning cord. his death has inspired widespread condemnation and protest and to this day there are many other being held at rikers. over # 00 people have been locked up for more than two years without being convicted of a crime. at the time of the report, there were get this a half dozen people at rikers who were waiting on pending cases for more than six years. there was a profile this last year when the mayor wanted to reduce the population. while it is a disgrace to the city, it is increasingly obvious that reform is moving much much, much too slowly. on wednesday, 18-year-old king davis hanged himself in his cell. he was taken into custody for a parole violation last saturday and waiting to see a psychiatrist. an investigation is underway. we'll be right back. >>> there is are two villains if you will,

bill de blasio says a young man who committed suicide after he was imprisoned for three years at rikers island jail without charge did not die in vain. kalief browder was just 16 years old when he was jailed at rikers without trial on suspicion of stealing a backpack. he maintained his innocence and was only offered plea deals while the trial was repeatedly delayed. the case was finally dismissed. on saturday, kalief took his own life at the age of 22. speaking at a news conference de blasio mourned browder's death. >> there's just no reason he should have gone through that ordeal. and it is a tragedy and it has cut so many of us. it will be to change. i wish we had not lost him. this is a tragic loss, but once his story became public, a caused a lot of people to act. and a lot of the changes we're making at rikers island right now are the result of the example of kalief browder. i deeply wish we had not lost him, but he did not die in pain. amy: you can go to democracynow.org for our discussion of kalief browder's life and death. we had a segment yesterday and have continually covered

earlier this week, 22-year-old kalief held at rikers island in new york committed suicide. >> it would'ven better if i had a plan. if i had a structured and committed support network. someone who would been through some of what i've been through in the prison. >> 80,000 prisoners are in solitary confinement in the united states. they spent 23 hours a day in cramped conditions with one hour for exercise. the challenges of freight entering everyday life are huge. many people assume that solitary confinement is a quiet place. the reality is that solitary confinement is loud. on either side of you you hear the sound of deterioration of the people around you. to be released onto the street there is a profound disorientation with the world around you. katty: since that report has been filed, the louisiana report agreed to temporarily block woodfox's release. audrey hepburn played holly golightly in breakfast at tiffany's. for many people it is not the plot that the music. in particular, moon river, which was composed specifically for hepburn. jane o'brien will take a look. >> breakfast at tiffa

had a clear psychological effect on him, who is now 68 years old >>> a weekend suicide of a former rikers island inmate prompted calls for changes at that troubled new york city gaol. the mayor bill de blasio says he'll push for reform two days after cal each browner killed himself. he was gaoled for three years, even though never convicted of a crime. he was released in 2013, but struggled with mental illness >>> authorities have been told to be on the look out for two men that escaped from a maximum security prison in new york. john seigenthaler reports investigators are looking into whether the convict had inside help. >> reporter: they climbed through a mann hole and vanished. leaving behind this. inmate 2297 david swep was serving life without parole for fatally shooting a sheriff's deputy 22 times. inmate 7:23 reportedly escaped before. this time he was doing 25 to life on a murder wrap. for torturing and dismembering his boss. the two were in adjacent cells at clinton correctional facilities. a state prison in northern new york 20 miles from the canadian border. friday night they r

tonight, tonight at rikers island there are -- there's 1,000 or so people sleeping at rikers island. of nothing because they cannot come one $500 bail. >> david always a pleasure. thank you for joining us. >>> ahead, we take a look at what exactly was revealed in the first post-scandal duggar family interview. try alka-seltzer heartburn reliefchews. they work fast and don't taste chalky. mmm...amazing. thank you. alka-seltzer heartburn reliefchews. enjoy the relief. audible safety beeping audible safety beeping audible safety beeping the nissan rogue with safety shield technologies. the only thing left to fear is you imagination. nissan. innovation that excites. >>> public sector unions have withered over attacks under the past years, a whole different segment of the country may offer hope to the struggling labor movement. online media. editorial employees at gawker media, that runs jeez bell deadspin, and others joined the writers guild of america, making gawker the first-ever digital media company to organize its labor force. nothing short of a landslide. 75% of the gawker employee

i understand he spent 800 days in solitaire confinement at rikers island.hey talk about losing control of themselves, the trauma of isolation sometimes brought on hallucinations. some of them tried to hurt themselves kill themselves. it's really not a place for young people. >> now the c.d.c. says incarceration itself, solitary confinement aside is one of the risk factors for suicide among young people, but isn't solitaire confinement used to protect some of these individuals from hurting themselves or others? >> sometimes facilities use solitary confinement to separate young people away from the general population. that highlights why children shouldn't be in jail in the first place because those who manage them don't have the special programs or services or resources to provide for people who are still growing and changing like young people. >> what should the system do? if there shouldn't be jails and prisons at all for juveniles even ones who committed terrible crimes where should they go? >> children shouldn't be in adult jails or prisons. rikers islan

>> oh god, jose i'm also a defense attorney and most of my clients are at rikers island.ntinues but there are criminal charges. and they're facing serious amounts of time. the family of ronald spears has already received a settlement civilly. but this criminal case is clearly going forward and hopefully it will also just aid the effort by mayor de blasio to implement changes in rikers island. >> seema, thank you, good to see you. >> thank you. >> be sure to catch seema's show on msnbc.com's "shift" at 11:00 a.m. eastern every tuesday. >>> developing now in vermont, we're about to hear from vermont governor pete shumlin about ongoing efforts to ramp up security in the information that the inmates may have planned to go to his state. the governor expected to speak any minute now. you see the podium is set up and the microphones. as soon as they come to the podium, we'll bring you that information. meanwhile, we'll take a short break. it takes nature 90 days to grow the most golden oats. 7,200 hours to create the purest honey and, it only takes you 3 minutes to enjoy it. per

tell us how he wound up in rikers and what took so long for him to be released?ed of stealing a backpack and police were told two weeks before he was stopped that he had a couple run-ins with the law. he was on probation which is why he didn't get to go out on bail association spent the next three years at rikers. new york has a speedy trial law. you should go to trial within six months but technicalities can stop that. anything the prosecutor or defense may need to get another week for, that adds up time because the bronx courts are so clogged that these defendants don't get a speedy trial. for example, in 2011 74% of felony cases went longer than six months. he was in there and he was offered plea deals over and over again. so with the amount of time he spent in jail they would have counted it for time served but kalik was so insistent he was innocent that he wanted to plead innocent and go to trial. >> it just seems like gosh okay so it's not six months it's eight. but how unusual is it for this long what a long period of time to be there, especially if you're

. >> imagine someone that goes to trial because there's a lot of people at riker's island who are onow-level crimes waiting for bail. we have a system of how we treat lower income people which is terrible but imagine you are thrown into solitary and you come out. what you learned in jail? you learn things that are not going to make america a safer place. we have done is systematically and they are going to be disenfranchised. there are 5 million people in this country that cannot vote and they have done their time and there is a bipartisan movement for criminal justice reform but economically, we have to feel safe. so letting about half of these people out, do you think he would be good for the economy? >> we need to keep criminals in jail. >> my answer is no, they shouldn't be in prison. but we have a serious drug problem and it's going across all socioeconomic levels. we need to keep people in our communities safe. >> you get surrounded by other criminals. you know, you are with those people for a year. it has been in your mindset, you're coming out mad. putting them in jail is not

who was in incarcerated -- excuse me rand paul name-checked the person who was three years in rikerss by his own hands of suicide after all those years. not that criminal justice isn't just but really engaging in a discussion about it. not that republicans can pull young voters or voters of color over but it almost seems hillary isn't exciting enough or compelling enough to show up. >> rand paul rick perry, a couple of them have had conversations about criminal justice. in texas they shut down three prisons. they're now not trying first offense drugs, they're putting them in jail. we can have any flavor of public you want the democrats are not going to have an in-depth conversation. hillary has the nomination. bernie sanders, is that a real contest? you let joe biden blink about becoming president, and that's what people are looking for. >> i just heard that republicans are the baskin robbins this year and we have roughly one soft serve of ikea at the end of the day. not that i think young people are going to head over to the republican party -- >> that's not happening. >> right, but

arnett gaston a former officer at riker's prison say that family could be in danger. >> you don't escape just to escape. freedom is sweet. but once you're out, then you start thinking about it's payback time. >> reporter: one former detective who worked on richard matt's case told me that police contacted him and warned of matt's escape. and another is prepared defend himself if matt comes after him. >>> the state of new york is offering a $100,000 reward for the capture of these two killers. officials have gotten more than 150 tips. if you have information you are urged to call the u.s. marshals at 1-800-give-tip. >>> we want to turn to the growing fifa scandal. the statement comes after fifa's compliance chief says the 2018 and 2022 bids could be voided if there was evidence of bribery. russia and qatar deny all bribery claims. >> bribery laws would not with a surprise. >> reporter: it's that simple. can you elaborate more? can you tell us more? what else do you know? >> so far every speculation was permitted regarding fifa and we know some people were already ready to sell votes for c

a young man who took his own life after spending three years behind bars at new york's notorious rikersd simply waiting for a trial. never actually found guilty of a crime, we should say. and shreveport, louisiana, on red alert as the red river keeps on rising and the water has not been this high in

the commanding officer at rikers islands said the detectives who worked on both cases could be in dangeruld say they should be very, very careful. let me say you don't escape just to escape. certainly freedom is sweet and that's one thing they want to do. once you are out, then you start thinking about it's payback time. >> in fact one former detective who word on rich art meat as case told me police contacted him and warned him of matt's escape. another detective said he is prepared to defend himself in rich and matt comes after him. >> there are really chilling details that you've her about richard matts, his whole operation operation. >> one of the detectives who worked on the case of this william ricker son, who he was kicked of killing, he said you can never turn your back on him. when he faced trial, a sniper was post outside the courthouse double the usual number of deputies an the glad that covered the wooden table for the lawyers was removed out of the concern that richard matt might break the glass and use the shards as weapons. that's how potential violent this guy was and is

former rikers island commander says corrections officers should never take gifts from inmates. >> it places you in a compromising position. once you have set up that situation, it could be manipulated further where you are now in their debt. >> reporter: gaston says that if palmer used matt and sweat as sources for information which kept the facility safe as he claims, he shouldn't have done that either, unless it was sanctioned by authorities at clinton. was it? the new york corrections department wouldn't comment. a former inmate at clinton who said he knew palmer doesn't think that palmer would help inmates escape but did say this. >> he wasn't like the other officers. he would mingle with us more. >> reporter: that inmate, eric jenson worked at the tailor shop with joyce mitchell and david sweat and now drops a bombshell. jenson says four times a week mitchell and sweat would disappear in to a closet at the tailor shop. sometimes for a half hour or 45 minutes. >> i believe they were getting it on in that back room. >> reporter: mitchell's husband lyle said she swore to him she ne

we talked to arnett gaston former chief of rikers island that prison notorious prison in new york heaid that a lot of the time when these guys get out it's payback they want they want to go after the guys who put them there. so the detectives who worked on that case could be in some danger tonight. >> all right, thanks very much brian todd for that. let's bring back our experts to discuss all these new developments. cedric alexander, quickly to you. we're being seen right now throughout the united states canada mexico. if somebody out there suspects that they're spotting -- they've spotted one or both of these convicted killers, what should they do? >> immediately, immediately wolf they need to get on the phone to their local authorities, whether in this country or abroad, and notify them and tell them they think they may have identified and they think these subjects may be within their sights. the sooner we're able to get them off the streets wherever they may happen to be the better for everyone that's involved. >> matthew, people should not approach these two guys by any means, ri

new york city has reached a deal to end a lawsuit over abuses at rikers island jail. in an agreement with federal prosecutors and attorneys for injured prisoners, the city agreed to the appointment of a federal monitor, new requirements for reporting use of force by guards, new surveillance cameras, and a pilot program for guards to wear body cameras. the reforms follow a scathing federal report over excessive force at the jail. the supreme court has made it easier for prisoners awaiting trial to sue guards for using excessive force. in a 5-to-4 ruling, the court ruled in favor of michael kingsley, a wisconsin man who was awaiting trial on drug charges when guards removed him from his cell and shocked him with a stun gun for refusing to remove a sheet of paper covering a light fixture. columbia university will to fast from the private prison industry following 16 months of student protests, becoming the first university in the country to do so. organizers of the columbia prison divest campaign say they were notified monday that columbia's board of trustees had decided

but he had to wait on rikers island where according to u.s.neral there is a deep seeded violence. and can have catastrophic psychological effects. kalif spent almost 800 days in solitary. he tried to kill himself many times. a judge offered him a deal. plead guilty and you can go home right now. kalif refused. and then after three years on the island and 31 court appearances the da moved to dismiss the case against him. kalif went home but a piece of reichers followed him there. in my mind i'm still mentally scarred. he got his ged and went on to college. he went on the view and huff post live. >> this happens every day and i feel it's got to stop. there are a lot of people in there for stuff they didn't do and they got to be in there for about three years. and when they get in like me a lot of people will take the plea deal and take it knowing they didn't do it and that happens every day. >> june 6th of this about three years ago. kalif wrapped an air conditioner electrical cord around his neck and pushed himself out of his window. his mom fo

he would spend three years in new york city's rikers island jail, more than two of those years in solitaryonfinement. after a judge finally dismissed the case against him and he was released, he had refused repeated offers a plea bargain saying he wanted to go to court of prove his innocence browder , tried to reclaim his life. he went to community college but in the end, the nightmare he lived through overwhelmed him. this past saturday, twelve days after his 22nd birthday, kalief browder wrapped an air-conditioner power cord around his neck and hanged himself. according to the new york daily news, browder killed himself just days before he was scheduled to appear in court on charges described by his lawyer as baseless. nationwide, the department of justice estimates that about 80,000 prisoners are in solitary confinement. today we look at a new investigation by the marshall project and npr that reveals prisons are sending thousands of people directly from solitary confinement back into their communities with almost no help or preparation. in the state of texas, for example, only 14% of p

three years in rikers island trapped without being convicted of a crime.e's not the only one spending time in jail without being convicted. from the first moment he was arrested insisted he was not guilty, he had done nothing wrong. he thought he would be held for a couple hours. it turned into three years. there was a moment after two and a half years a judge said to him, plead guilty today and you can go home. he said no. >> it's like kid, you don't understand this is the way the system works. you got to plead. we can't have trials for all these things. we don't have the time. so kalief thought, i have a right to a trial. >> and i didn't do it. >> and he was waiting for his trial. >> that is what ends up in the massive disaster that is this case. his insistence on his own innocence and his desire to have his constitutionally guaranteed trial in front of a jury is what keeps him in prison. >> and it meant he endured more psychological damage. and the most disturbing thing is not on the screen. it's that was day 862 without a conviction. >> and since you s

and they work on the musical program with some prisoners at rikers and try to rehabilitate them throughthink the question really comes down to what are we doing once these prisoners come out? and how are we allowingo reenter society and not judge them for the rest of their lives for the mistake they make? >> that's a great point. another issue that has focused on in the show is race. and as you know the story everyone's been talking about. is rachel. >> this is stupid. >> let's focus on the real issues focus. what did you mean by that? >> we are now gearing up for a political political/presidential campaign in a race. those are the issues we need to be talking about. trump just announced his presidency. so i think the issues that are surrounding what is goings on in our political climate are more important than someone that wants to talk about how they want to identify themselves racially. look. i am an african american woman and i carry that proudly. and to me anyone that wants to represent my culture, in all honesty, i can't -- i can't -- i can't blame them for that. there certainly i

he was ripping off rikers. he was selling with a network of people in canada. he had a way of getting in and out of canada not always legitimately, right? he was able to scale through the whirlpool grid the train only bridge, and he did it without being detected. this is somebody who has both foresight and skill to remain undetected and also was able to keep friends at a great capacity. >> thank you for your information. >>> developing now, we've learned new details in the past hour in what authorities say was a chilling plot to kill boston police officers. that plot foiled last week. now in court documents filed just this morning, the fbi says the plot was intended to support isis. overnight the fbi arrested another suspect believed to be involved in the plot. the suspect, nicolas ravinsky is now scheduled to appear this federal court in boston this afternoon. nbc news correspondent reports in washington. >> reporter: this had some detail of what law officials said was this plot they believe they foiled in boston. overnight the third man was arrested, someone

. >> sharp is arrested and charged with multiple physical felonies, she is locked up in rikers islandhree days before she's released on bail. her sentence, five free aerial shows for children. >> my decision was neither reckless nor endangering of others. it was planned. controlled. considered. part of the reason i planned it the way i did was so that if i did fall, i would fall on the subway tracks. >> i hope through the capturing on video that we can appreciate what humans are capable of in such beauty and grace and strength and bravery. >> the two most commonly asked questions are why did you do it? and would you do it again? to the first i say because i can. and the second, i never do the same thing twice. >>> coming up -- >> i said to myself if i see blackness, i'm going to freak out. >> a father and son let their imaginations soar. >> we were just stunned. it was the most incredible thing ever. >> when "caught on camera: up in the air" returns. chmobile!? man, we had a lot of good times in this baby. what's your dad want for it? ..like a hundred and fifty grand, two hundred if t

. >> woodruff: the number of have agreed in principal on reforms that the riker's island jail complexass action suit by injured inmates had alleged wide spread brutality by guards. the reforms will include a federal monitor and thousands of video cameras. >> ifill: the number of veterans enduring long waits at v.a. hospitals has jumped 50% from a year ago. the department of veterans affairs was hit by a scandal last year over false records and long wait times. a "new york times" report says a surge in demand swamped efforts to fix the problem. >> woodruff: and on wall street stocks gained on hopes for a breakthrough in the greek bailout talks. the dow jones industrial average gained more than 100 points to close near 18,120. the nasdaq rose 37 points. and the s-and-p added 13. still to come on the newshour: the politics of confederate flags with tamara keith and susan page; roots of racial hatred in wake of the mass shooting in charleston; greece waits with bated breath for an emergency economic deal over debt; the supreme court boosts privacy and property rights in today's decisions;