A series of lawsuits have allowed us to crack the door open into this really secret place called juvenile court. The mechanism that behind mass incarceration of children went on for decades, the systems that created it and the people that were the architects of it are still in power. In the show, mariba is going to tell us what she discovered about why children, actual little children in pigtails, we're getting arrested in Tennessee.
For 11 years, a Tennessee judge sent kids to jail for a crime that doesn’t exist. Nashville Public Radio’s Meribah Knight explains why that judge is still in charge of “juvenile justice.”
Today’s show was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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