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The Political Scene | The New Yorker

Wrongful Imprisonment

The Political Scene | The New Yorker

The New Yorker

Obama, Washington, Politics, President, Barack, Lizza, Wnyc, News, Wickenden

4.33.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2015

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Ariel Levy and Jennifer Gonnerman talk with Dorothy Wickenden about wrongful imprisonment and prison abuse in the United States.

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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors

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about politics. It's Thursday, April 16th. I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of

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The New Yorker. In 2010, 16-year-old Khalif Browder was accused of a minor theft in the

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Bronx. He was imprisoned on Rikers Island for three years awaiting trial.

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Then the charges were suddenly dropped.

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Last November, shortly after Jennifer Gonerman wrote about the case in the New Yorker,

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Browder appeared on the view.

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I lost my childhood. I lost my happiness.

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You know, deep down, I'm a mess because it's like I'm 21 and in the

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inside I feel like I'm 40. This week, New York City mayor Bill de Blasio spoke about Browder's

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