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Hey, serial listeners, satanic here. We've got a new show coming out. It's hosted by maria night reporter based in nash bill. A few years ago, maraba reported on a local story about a group of eleven kids who'd been arrested not for fighting, but for watching a fight, not even a fight.
Really a skirt ish is probably a Better description of 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 handcuff s police cruisers. A few even booked into the juvenile detention center was outrageous.
But also, yeah, maybe just one of those news of the weird type stories. But maria started digging, and what he realized was that in the county where this took place, rutherford county, y in tennessee, in that county arrest like this, maybe not so weird. Maraba found out this had been going on for years.
Kids in retford county arrested and jailed at an alarm rate. And then he asked why the show is called the kids of ruth ford county. And we produce IT with our partners at pro public a and national public radio.
We've got a trailer or hear free if you want to check IT out. The show is coming out on october twenty six. It's four tight episodes, so please go follow the kids of referred conney and each episode will be delivered to you as it's released. Here's the trailer.
Do you remember what year once you were, you were arrested in jail? But I also Young that I only remember what what was going on in that time. Yeah, right. And so you were told, are you seven? My cat.
when Brandon was just seven years old, police showed up at his door to arrest him, branded the fence, tagging along with his older brothers, who d wrestled in a vacant duplex and left some holes in the dry wall. Now police were there to take brand in his brothers to the juvenile detention center. Jil basically .
weren't me in, but they were like, well, he needs to learn his lesson.
Brendon was held in detention overnight and then brought .
to the juvenile court for a hearing. They all ARM go in the court.
Bridon should have gone home with this mom that day, but when he went before the judge, SHE went him back to jail for a week. Brita's arrest and detention happened in rutherford county, tennessee, and his case wasn't unique there for over a decade. The conney was arresting and jAiling kids for even the most minor offences.
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IT happened so often to so many kids in rather d coley that getting sent to juvenile detention was almost a right of passage in many cases. But IT also was was illegal. This is the story of how that system came to be, how a came to be Normalized, accepted, laudi than it's also the story of two insiders who actually did see the problem in.
rather for coy mugabe's, we burn this place to the ground.
They just needed other people to see you too. From serial productions and the new york times. I'm here by night, and this is the kids of rothfeder county coming october twenty six.
For me, I feel like he was like a dream and never happened that I actually happened.