After years of using my brother’s name in an attempt to address the systemic injustices that led to his tragic death, New York State passed a budget that reneges on every promise they made to ensure pretrial justice. My brother Kalief was the victim of an unjust, unequal and racist criminal legal system. He sat behind bars on Rikers Island for three years as an innocent teenager, waiting for his day in court. The charges were eventually dropped, but the unimaginable psycholog