According to Tamar R. Birckhead (2015), solitary confinement is used as the most punitive punishment for juveniles for even minor violation of rules including horseplay or being in someone else’s cell (p. 22). On May 2010, Kalief Browder a 16-year-old, was arrested for allegedly stealing a backpack and was charged with second degree robbery. Browder was placed under arrest and given bail of $3,000, which he was unable to pay. For three years he was held in prison without a trial and for two of those three years, he spent it in solitary confinement. Which on two occasions he attempted suicide, first by hanging, then attempting to cut his wrist. Browder story was has made nation new, even President Obama used his experience as a reference to