The Kids of Rutherford County - Trailer

Serial

Serial Productions & The New York Times

True Crime, News, Society & Culture

4.5 • 81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

For over a decade, one Tennessee county arrested and illegally jailed hundreds, maybe thousands, of children. A four-part narrative series reveals how this came to be, the adults responsible for it, and the two lawyers, former juvenile delinquents themselves, who try to do something about it. From Serial Productions and The New York Times, “The Kids of Rutherford County” is reported and hosted by Meribah Knight, a Peabody-award winning reporter based in the South. Get it everywhere you get your podcasts on Thursday, October 26th.

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0:00.0	Hey, serial listeners.
0:02.2	Sarah Cainey here.
0:03.6	We've got a new show coming out.
0:05.4	It's hosted by Meribah Knight,
0:06.9	a reporter based in Nashville.
0:09.0	A few years ago, Meribah reported on a local story
0:11.8	about a group of 11 kids who'd been arrested.
0:14.6	Not for fighting, but for watching a fight.
0:17.5	Not even a fight, really.
0:18.7	A skirmish is probably a better description.
0:20.9	A five and six-year-old,
0:22.3	throwing some feeble punches at an eight-year-old.
0:25.3	But the whole group of kids arrested.
0:28.1	Little elementary school-aged kids,
0:30.6	handcuffs, police cruisers.
0:32.6	A few of them even booked into the juvenile detention center.
0:35.5	It was outrageous.
0:37.1	But also, yeah, maybe just one of those news
0:39.5	of the weird-type stories.
0:41.7	But Meribah started digging.
0:43.7	And what she realized was that in the county
0:45.4	where this took place, Rutherford County, in Tennessee,
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