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New York: Bronx Teen, Jailed at Rikers for Over a Year, Bailed Out

HeadlineJul 27, 2017

And in New York City, Pedro Hernandez, a Bronx teen who’s been held at the notorious Rikers Island jail while awaiting trial for a 2015 crime he says he did not commit, will be released on bail after the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights group agreed to post $100,000. Hernandez is fighting charges that he fired a shot that injured another teen in 2015—even though the victim and eight other teens who witnessed the shooting say Hernandez is innocent. Hernandez has been in jail since July of 2016. His plight has drawn comparisons to the case of Kalief Browder, another Bronx teen, who committed suicide in 2015 at the age of 22 after being held at Rikers for nearly three years without trial for a crime he did not commit.

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