There was about 50,000 minors currently incarcerated in this country. Only a six year old brought a gun to school and shot a teacher. We have created a system where we believe that the methods of harm should be available to everybody,. And then our response to that is to punish them like adults.
In this News Brief, we talk with Josie Duffy Rice about her new podcast, "Unreformed: The Story of the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children,” incarceration as racial disciplining mechanism, and what has––and hasn't––changed in our so-called "juvenile justice system".