{"id":120462,"date":"2023-10-29T23:57:36","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T23:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=120462"},"modified":"2023-10-29T23:57:38","modified_gmt":"2023-10-29T23:57:38","slug":"serial-podcast-team-looks-at-school-to-prison-pipeline-in-tn-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=120462","title":{"rendered":"Serial Podcast Team Looks at School to Prison Pipeline in TN County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/10\/19\/podcasts\/serial-kids-rutherford-county.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/10\/19\/podcasts\/serial-kids-rutherford-county.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NY Times<\/a>: &#8220;In April 2016, 11 Black schoolchildren, some as young as 8 years old, were arrested in Rutherford County, Tenn. The reason? They didn\u2019t stop a fight between some other kids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">What happened in the wake of those arrests would expose a juvenile justice system that was playing by its own rules. For over a decade, this county had arrested and illegally jailed hundreds, maybe thousands, of children. It would take years, but eventually one lawyer, a former juvenile delinquent himself, asked: Why? 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">From Serial Productions and The New York Times, \u201cThe Kids of Rutherford County\u201d is a four-part narrative series reported and hosted by Meribah Knight, a Peabody-award winning reporter based in the South.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NY Times: &#8220;In April 2016, 11 Black schoolchildren, some as young as 8 years old, were arrested in Rutherford County, Tenn. The reason? They didn\u2019t stop a fight between some other kids. What happened in the wake of those arrests would expose a juvenile justice system that was playing by its own rules. For over&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120463,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120462\/revisions\/120463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}