The Kids of Rutherford County
New No. 1 on the iTunes Top Podcasts chart: The Kids of Rutherford County by Serial Productions & The New York Times.
A Riveting Podcast Unveiling a Dark Side of Juvenile Justice
"The Kids of Rutherford County" is a four-part narrative series produced by Serial Productions and The New York Times, in partnership with ProPublica and Nashville Public Radio [nytimes.com]. The podcast is reported and hosted by Meribah Knight, a Peabody-award winning reporter based in the South [nytimes.com].
The podcast delves into the world of one county's juvenile court, a court shrouded in confidentiality and privacy, which allowed something secretive and illegal to grow [nytimes.com]. For over a decade, Rutherford County in Tennessee was arresting and illegally jailing hundreds, possibly thousands, of children [nytimes.com]. The podcast 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 [greatpods.co].