Revisiting Caught: 'I Just Want You to Come Home'

Notes from America with Kai Wright

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News Commentary, Politics, History, News

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🗓️ 30 July 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The United States locks up more people - and more children - than any country in the world. Two years ago, Caught delved into the experiences of youth whose worst decisions led them to be entrapped within the criminal justice system, often for life. We’re revisiting the story of then-16-year-old Z, as he awaits a decision that could change his life forever and details how he landed in a detention center in Queens. Also, juvenile justice lawyer and poet Dwayne Betts reflects on his own experience with incarceration as a teenager and how a dangerous storm that brewed in the Nineties continues to cost young lives. Caught: The Lives of Juvenile Justice is hosted by Kai Wright and supported, in part, by the Anne Levy Fund, Margaret Neubart Foundation, the John and Gwen Smart Family Foundation, and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. 'I Just Want You to Come Home' was originally published on March 12, 2018. Listen to more episodes here.

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0:00.0	Hey gang a housekeeping note and some exciting news about the show. We're guessing that a lot of you feel the way we do lately which is longing for an opportunity to actually gather in one place with other people at the same time and talk with each other.
0:19.0	So, we're going to start making the United States of anxiety live each week and we invite you to listen to it that way
0:27.0	Every Sunday at 6 PM Eastern come gather with us
0:32.0	We'll still tell the same kinds of carefully reported and produced stories,
0:36.8	but we'll also have some raw conversations and invite you to join in them. More about all of this as the time gets closer,
0:44.9	but for now, mark your calendars.
0:47.4	Starting August 23rd, 6 PM,
0:50.7	join us live, either on the radio here in New York City are streaming online wherever
0:56.7	you are in the world. And of course you will still be able to listen to the show whenever
1:02.0	you want right here in the podcast feed.
1:05.2	I'm Kywright and this is the United States of anxiety. USA, U.S.N.
1:15.0	U.S.A. Oh, oh, oh,
1:17.0	Oh, oh,
1:18.0	Can't be yeah.
1:20.0	Yeah, yeah, Yeah. I want to share with you a few episodes of a podcast we made back in 2018. It's called Caught and it is as frustratingly relevant right
1:36.8	now as it ever was.
1:39.4	Beginning with Michelle Alexander's groundbreaking book, The New Jim Crow,
1:43.5	published way back in 2010,
1:45.6	and running all the way through the Black Lives Matter
1:48.0	movement today.
1:49.2	People have been talking about the excesses of cops and courts with a new urgency.
1:56.9	But here's the thing about that conversation.
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