‘People don’t realize the realities of prison’: telling Kalief Browder’s devastating story through art

Artist Coby Kennedy constructed a plexiglass cell to show people the confined space that a wrongly imprisoned teen was placed in for almost two years at Rikers Island“Kalief [Browder] and his family, everything that happened to him ... It hit me in the gut, like, real hard,” artist Coby Kennedy tells the Guardian. “But for the sculpture itself, the real impetus of the sculpture was how the average person doesn’t really realize what’s going on in this country. They d