Social Injustice Film: The Kalief Browder Story

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As I researched the Kalief Browder story, many I discovered there were several social justice concerns that interconnect and violated basic human rights. The areas of concern consisted of: false imprisonment, housing a sixteen-year-old child with adults, solitary confinement, starvation, socio-economic disparities, failure of our legal system to protect and serve, and denial of proper mental health treatment even after several suicide attempts while in prison. According to MacIntyre (2016), justice is not made up of specific descriptors; the facts can be incongruent at times, but, yet each supplies a significant meaning to the acts of justice (Lebacqz, p. 9). This social injustice film was chosen innocently as a follow-up to a prior documentary