Hey, serial listeners, Sarah Koenig here. We've got a new show coming out. It's hosted by Maraba Knight, a reporter based in Nashville. A few years ago, Mariba reported on a local story about a group of 11 kids who'd been arrested. Not for fighting, but for watching a fight. Not even a fight, really. A skirmish is probably a better description. A five and six-year-old

throwing some feeble punches at an eight-year-old. But the whole group of kids arrested. Little

elementary school-age kids. Handcuffs, police cruisers, a few of them even booked into the juvenile

detention center. It was outrageous. But also, yeah, maybe just one of

those news of the weird type stories. But Maraba started digging. And what she realized was that in

the county where this took place, Rutherford County in Tennessee, in that county, arrests like this

maybe not so weird. Marraba found out this had been going on for years. Kids in Rutherford

County arrested and jailed at an alarming rate. And then she asked why. The show is called the

kids of Rutherford County, and we produced it with our partners at ProPublica and Nashville Public Radio.

We've got a trailer here for you if you want to check it out.

The show is coming out on October 26th.

It's four tight episodes.

So please go follow the kids of Rutherford County,

and each episode will be delivered to you as it's released.

Here's the trailer.

Do you remember what year it was that you were arrested in jail?

I was so young that I don't even remember what was going on in that time.

Yeah, right.

And so you were, how old were you?

Seven. Oh, my God. When Brandon was just seven. You were, how old were you? Seven?

Oh, my God.

When Brandon was just seven years old, police showed up at his door to arrest him.

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