Meribah Knight and Daniel Guillemette and Julie Snyder andApple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music Listen and follow ‘The Kids of Rutherford County’In April 2016, 11 Black schoolchildren, some as young as 8 years old, were arrested in Rutherford County, Tenn.
For over a decade, this county had arrested and illegally jailed hundreds, maybe thousands, of children.
The answer would lead back to a powerful judge, the jailer she appointed and a county that treated this astronomical number of arrests as normal.
From Serial Productions and The New York Times, “The Kids of Rutherford County” is a four-part narrative series reported and hosted by Meribah Knight, a Peabody-award winning reporter based in the South.
In the podcast, Knight explores the world of one county’s juvenile court — a court shrouded in confidentiality and privacy, which in turn allowed something secretive and illegal to grow.
Persons:
Meribah Knight, Daniel Guillemette, Julie Snyder, Rutherford County ’, Knight, —
Organizations:
Apple, Spotify, The New York Times, Peabody
Locations:
Rutherford County, Tenn