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Caught

WNYC Studios

Politics, Society & Culture, Documentary, News, True Crime

4.9 • 747 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2018

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

The United States locks up more people than any country in the world. That starts young: Roughly a million kids a year get caught up in the criminal justice system. In Caught, a new podcast from WNYC, we'll listen as some of those young people tell their stories over nine episodes. They'll help us understand how we got here--and how we might help, rather than just punish troubled youth. Welcome to Caught: The Lives of Juvenile Justice. Caught: The Lives of Juvenile Justice is supported, in part, by the Anne Levy Fund, Margaret Neubart Foundation, the John and Gwen Smart Family Foundation, and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.

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0:00.0	Listener supported WNYC Studios
0:07.2	Here's a game about climbing up and sliding down.
0:15.7	It's called shoots and ladders.
0:17.9	You know the game.
0:19.0	You spin the wheel and fate sets your course. You either
0:22.4	get a boost up in life. Ah, you're going up, up, up the ladder, or you get shoved down the chute.
0:28.9	Oh, okay. First one to climb to 100 weeks. If only it were just a game, there is no better metaphor for how society deals with kids who screw up,
0:41.4	or more to the point how some people get to learn from their mistakes,
0:45.1	and others they get shoved down the chute of cops and courts and jails.
0:49.9	That divide, that stark sorting of innocence and irredeemable guilt, it starts very young.
0:56.6	Well, I first came here when I was like 13, when I was littler.
1:00.5	And it was, I don't know, at first it was, like, scary.
1:04.0	I wouldn't even wish, like, jail on nobody, like, because it's not a nice place to be.
1:12.5	I'm Kairite, and this is Caught.
1:15.7	It's a podcast about crime, youth and crime.
1:18.6	But there's no murder mystery here, no whodunit.
1:21.5	We're going to tell you a bunch of stories about young people who are not innocent.
1:25.5	And yet, depending on their zip code or skin color or just plain luck,
1:30.1	they face very different consequences for their guilt.
1:33.2	For millions of them, once they make contact with the criminal justice system,
1:37.7	that's it.
1:38.7	Their course is set.
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