Introducing ‘Caught’: Our New Podcast

Notes from America with Kai Wright

WNYC Studios

News Commentary, Politics, History, News

4.4 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

America incarcerates more people than any country in the world. It starts with kids. On any given night, roughly 53,000 young people are in some form of lockup. Nearly 60 percent are black or Latino. We all make dumb mistakes in our youth. But for these kids, those same destructive choices have a lasting impact. Mass incarceration starts young. From the team that brought you The United States of Anxiety, Caught: The Lives of Juvenile Justice tells the stories of young lives forever changed by collisions with law and order. In this episode, meet Z, a kid who had his first encounters with law enforcement when he was just 12 years old. Now, at 16, he’s sitting in detention on an armed robbery charge. Z's story introduces the questions: What happens once we decide a child is a criminal? What does society owe those children, beyond punishment? And what are the human consequences of the expansion and hardening of criminal justice policies that began in the 1990s – consequences disproportionately experienced by black and brown youth? 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. Subscribe on iTunes.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody. This is Kai Wright. We have been very busy, but not working on the United
0:09.2	States of anxiety. We've been producing a whole new podcast called Caught.
0:14.0	It's about the lives of kids caught in the juvenile justice system
0:17.8	and we really want you to give it a listen.
0:19.9	So I'm going to play it for you, check out go subscribe and hey stay tuned season three of the United States of anxiety is coming
0:32.0	I explained to you last night that the bricks were starting to fall and they were all going to come crumble and die.
0:37.0	All the evidence we've got, we know that you were there.
0:46.0	So that's where we need to start.
0:51.0	And that is where we are starting to. The feeling of getting caught. That moment when you just, you can't run, you cannot hide,
0:57.2	it is time that you face the consequences for what you've done.
1:00.3	Where is you there?
1:02.3	Yeah. on. Where did you there?
1:04.0	Yeah.
1:05.0	Why did you tell us last night?
1:10.0	Because I was scared. Scared.
1:14.0	Scared.
1:15.0	Young and scared.
1:17.0	You know the feeling I'm talking about.
1:19.0	I mean really scared.
1:20.0	Think back to it, that moment when like you're hiding in your friend's house or wherever and you're thinking God if I can just get away with this if I can just not pay for what I've done this time I will not do it again
1:32.0	After what happened happened, I went to the bathroom and I just looked at myself and when I looked in the mirror I felt like I wasn't looking at myself.
1:42.0	And yet the consequences they still come. the
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