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.
我不久前看了一個讓人不寒而慄的影片。影片上，來自布朗克斯區(Bronx)的黑人少年卡利夫•布勞德(Kalief Browder)在紐約賴克斯島(Rikers Island)監獄遭到獄警和其他犯人的毒打。這段由監獄監控系統拍攝下來的影像已經足夠觸目驚心，更讓人感到遍體生寒的是《紐約客》(The New Yorker)雜誌去年刊載的一篇讓人過目難忘的調查性報導揭露出來的幕後故事：布勞德之所以入獄，是因爲他在16歲時被指控偷竊一個揹包並遭到拘留。
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