A Judge Illegally Jailed Black Children In Tennessee

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🗓️ 13 October 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

For more than a decade, officials in Rutherford County, Tennessee, were arresting kids en masse and placing them in juvenile detention. In this county, children were going to jail over tiny – or even non-existent – infractions. ProPublica and Nashville Public Radio reported this story and Meribah Knight, the lead author, joins us to unpack who allowed this to go on for so long. And in headlines: Las Vegas Raiders head coach Jon Gruden resigned, Texas Governor Greg Abbott banned any entity in the state from mandating the COVID vaccine, and the NBA’s Kyrie Irving will not play in any games for the Brooklyn Nets until he's vaccinated. Show Notes: ProPublica: “Black Children Were Jailed for a Crime That Doesn’t Exist. Almost Nothing Happened to the Adults in Charge” – https://bit.ly/3v7F4vd For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/whataday

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0:00.0	It's Wednesday, October 13th.
0:08.0	I'm Priyanka Erbindi and I'm Josie Defi Rice and this is What a Day.
0:11.9	The podcast that is also the official soundtrack to leafsturning.
0:15.4	It is apple cider, it is pumpkin picking, it is drinking your pumpkin spice latte, all
0:19.9	of the above.
0:20.9	Basically, any stereotype of fall that you can imagine, that's what we are.
0:31.3	On today's show, the coach of the Las Vegas Raiders resigned, plus we quiz each other on the
0:36.4	definitely loud romance between Machine Gun Kelly and Megan Foxx.
0:40.8	It will be a doozy.
0:43.2	Scared and excited.
0:44.6	But first, some news from Congress yesterday afternoon, House Democrats passed a short-term
0:49.2	measure to extend the country's debt limit through early December.
0:52.9	Despite every Republican president voting no.
0:56.6	Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned lawmakers weeks ago that if they didn't do anything,
1:00.3	the nation would run out of cash by this coming Monday same.
1:03.6	The bill next heads to the president's desk for him to sign, so fiscal disaster averted
1:08.5	for now.
1:09.5	But we will see you guys again in December.
1:11.7	Yes, we have been here, we'll still be here.
1:15.4	Hopefully you join us then.
1:17.5	This is Groundhog Day, but the debt limit.
1:19.9	Exactly.
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