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Jesse Mckinley and Ashley Southall

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Uganda New York Times world
30 Mar 2019
NEW YORK — For many in New York, the inequities in the cash bail system were crystallized when a Bronx teenager named Kalief Browder spent three years on Rikers Island because his family could not raise $3,000, only to have a robbery charge dropped for lack of evidence. He later took his own life.
Kalief Browder's Suicide Inspired a Push to End Cash Bail. Now Lawmakers Have a Deal.