On a cold night in 2010, a boy is stopped by the police while walking home from a party

in the Bronx.

He's only 16.

He's been stopped by the police before, but this time is different.

In a special four-part series, the Generation Y Podcast unravels the story of Khalif

Browder, a young boy who is falsely accused of stealing a backpack and held without bail

at Rikers Island for three years.

During that time, he endured regular abuse by prison staff and inmates and was held in

solitary confinement for more than 700 consecutive days.

Three years later, Khalif was released, never once, having stood trial.

Khalif's case ended up being a catalyst for change in the use of solitary confinement

against minors in federal prisons, but we still have a long way to go.

We say, innocent until proven guilty, but where do we draw the line between due process

and cruelty?

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Most people, if they were to be jailed or incarcerated for 30 days, they would lose their

house, they would lose their job, they would lose everything, just 30 days behind bars.

There are so many other punishments, there are so many other impacts that incarceration

have that no one weighs out because we just think, time behind bars, we just think, did

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