A family is demanding justice after their 22-year-old-son committed suicide after a stint on Rikers Island.
The parents of Kalief Browder were outside Bronx Supreme Court Friday to once again call for a public trial.
Browder was 18 years old when he was locked up for allegedly stealing a backpack, despite never being convicted of a crime.
He fought the allegation and went on to serve three years awaiting trial, including two years in solitary confinement at Rikers.
Browder took his life at his home in June 2015 while in the process of filing a lawsuit against the city.
His mother, Venida, blames his death on the city, saying the teenager's time in solitary confinement caused him deep, irreparable harm.
"He tried to commit suicide while he was in Rikers and they ignored him. They ignored him. They just felt it was a ploy for him to get out of solitary confinement," Venida Browder said. "That ploy is how he ended his life, to erase all the memories that day by day, bothered him. It just haunted him."
In January, President Barack Obama issued an executive order banning the use of solitary confinement for all juveniles in federal prisons.