The tragedy of Kalief Browder taking his own life after spending three unjustifiable years in Rikers Island is a failure of the system as a whole as well as a failure of Rikers Island Jail. To consider it only as “a failure of the larger criminal justice system – not of his treatment at Rikers” is simply untrue. While at Rikers, Browder was confined to an overcrowd and violence riddled jail. Around six hundred youth were restrained within R.N.D.C. where Browder was held and most if not all the inmates, including Browder suffered from abuse at the hands of fellow inmates and correctional officers. The brutality of Rikers combined with the institutionalization of Browder as a result of his extensive pretrial detention haunted Browder even after