The Alabama industrial school for Negro children was founded in the early 1900s. Today, it's still open and is a center of tough love that has left many former students on death row or serving life without parole. The show looks at how this vector of state violence followed them throughout their lives as they tried to rebuild their lives.
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".