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‘The Stakes’: Kalief Browder’s Family On ‘The Campaign To Shut Down Rikers’

Jamil Smith talks to Nicole and Akeem Browder about injustice in the criminal justice system

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CITY HALL, NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES - 2016/02/23: Demonstrators hold aloft a symbolic coffin bearing Kalief Browder's name as they rally near the gate of City Hall. A confederacy of about a dozen prison reform activists rallied at City Hall in New York City to demand that it close the long-controversial Rikers Island Corrections facility where, among others, Kalief Browder, died; critics maintain that the prison is unsafe and prolonged detention of inmates at the facility is a violation of Constitutional due process rights. (Photo by Albin Lohr-Jones/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)
By MTV Podcasts
March 3, 2017 / 11:35 AM

Welcome back to "The Stakes," where we’re all taking apple cider vinegar shots to stave off the sickness that is American politics. We’ve got a special episode for you today featuring senior national correspondent Jamil Smith in conversation with Nicole and Akeem Browder, the siblings of Kalief Browder, who spent three years in Rikers Island without a trial. His powerful story was made into a six-part documentary series, Time: The Kalief Browder Story, which premiered on Spike on March 1.

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