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"The greatest threat to America's children is not their own mothers."
"There's a lot of shame around it, and you think you're the only one going through it, but you're not."
The woman's attorney says the state is trying to turn her into "a vessel."
At age 16, Kalief Browder was arrested and imprisoned. He spent three years on Rikers Island without ever having been convicted. Earlier this year, he was released without an explanation. He joins us live to talk about his experience.
I wasn't born into a family so much as I was hatched, in the general vicinity of a 20-year-old Minnesota girl with a really bad drinking problem, and the love of her life, a Billy-Dee-Williams-type who committed crimes for a living.