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TIME: The Kalief Browder Story

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TIME: The Kalief Browder Story

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Spike TV | SPIKE | Release Date: March 1, 2017

Summary: The six-part documentary series examines the case of 16-year-old Kalief Browder, who ended up at Riker’s Island prison for three years while awaiting trial, after being accused of stealing a backpack (the charge was eventually dropped).

Genre(s): Movie/Mini-Series, News/Documentary, Documentary

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Newsday

Verne Gay

Mar 7, 2017

Season 1 Review: Remarkable film.... Based on a look at the first two episodes, this particularly well-produced film insists that even in death, Kalief Browder can still change a broken system--and must. Read full review

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Philadelphia Daily News

Ellen Gray

Mar 1, 2017

Season 1 Review: I watch some disturbing things in this job, but I can't remember the last time anything left me as shaken as Time: The Kalief Browder Story. Read full review

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Boston Herald

Mark A. Perigard

Feb 28, 2017

Season 1 Review: Time’s biggest takeaway is that cases like this--indigent defendants being abused by the judicial and then the corrections system--are more the norm than the exception. Read full review

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Variety

Maureen Ryan

Feb 28, 2017

Season 1 Review: Though it uses Browder’s experiences to indict a whole system, to its credit, Time never loses sight of the man at the center of this case, who endured a tragedy as unforgettable as it is American. Read full review

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Bertaut1

Nov 13, 2020

Unbearably painful

Created by Julia Willoughby-Nason, Jenner Furst, and Nick Sandow, directed by Furst, and with Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter and Harvey Weinstein serving as executive producers, this six-part documentary tells the almost unbearably tragic story of Kalief Browder, a 16-year-old whoUnbearably painful

Created by Julia Willoughby-Nason, Jenner Furst, and Nick Sandow, directed by Furst, and with Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter and Harvey Weinstein serving as executive producers, this six-part documentary tells the almost unbearably tragic story of Kalief Browder, a 16-year-old who was arrested for allegedly stealing a backpack. With his family unable to afford the $900 bail, Browder spent 1,111 days in Rikers, despite never being convicted of a crime. Turning down nine plea deals, Browder refused to admit to something he didn't do just so he could go home. With his case brought to court and delayed multiple times, Browder spent over 800 days in solitary confinement, where his mental health rapidly deteriorated. Indeed, the episodes dealing with his time in Rikers, and the experience and effects of long-term solitary confinement, are almost too horrific to bear.

Were this fiction, the litany of abuses he suffers, and the details of how the system failed him, would be rejected as ridiculous, with his nightmare continuing even upon his release; in two separate incidents, he was shot and stabbed, and was later sectioned, as he became increasingly paranoid and unstable. Telling the parallel story of the anguish of his doting mother, if I had one criticism, it would be that the narrative is stretched too thin. Much like The Keepers, there isn't enough material here to warrant this many episodes, and it does lapse into repetition at times. Nevertheless, this is harrowing stuff; highly recommended.… Expand

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