Last week I watched a video that made me wince in horror. It showed a black teenager from the Bronx, Kalief Browder, being savagely beaten by prison officers and fellow inmates at Rikers Island prison in New York. That footage, captured by the prison’s surveillance system, was bad enough. Even more chilling was the backstory, revealed by a haunting piece of investigative reporting in The New Yorker magazine last year: Browder was in prison because, at the age of 16, he was accused of stealing a backpack and detained.
我不久前看了一个让人不寒而栗的视频。视频上，来自布朗克斯区(Bronx)的黑人少年卡利夫•布劳德(Kalief Browder)在纽约赖克斯岛(Rikers Island)监狱遭到狱警和其他犯人的毒打。这段由监狱监控系统拍摄下来的影像已经足够触目惊心，更让人感到遍体生寒的是《纽约客》(The New Yorker)杂志去年刊载的一篇让人过目难忘的调查性报道揭露出来的幕后故事：布劳德之所以入狱，是因为他在16岁时被指控偷窃一个背包并遭到拘留。
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