You find it somehow unbelievable the family couldn't come up with bail. They didn't. Obviously part of the issue with the criminal justice system is that if you DO have a supportive family, and/or money, you'd have spent a couple nights if that in jail. Poor people by the HUNDREDS in NY, and by the thousands across the country, spend years in jail with no trial effectively because they are poor. Sure, condemn the family. I don't know, but we can assume they're not winning parents of the year. Doesn't change what happened to the kid, or that the system failed him in a particularly catastrophic way.
And if he was in solitary confinement, an act we know causes serious, long term, mental problems for adults, for "his own safety" based on a charge of robbery of a damn backpack - jail is too dangerous for a 16 year old - then maybe that's a serious problem with the system? Yeah, that's part of the whole point. Also, too, the trial delays. Sure, maybe his "agents" or whatever you called them requested continuances because they've got 1,000 other defendants they're trying to weave through the system. Again, that's not the kid's problem - he's poor, and he's entitled to competent defense. He didn't get it.