Newsmakers meet New Yorkers as host Brian Lehrer and his guests take on the issues dominating conversation in New York and around the world. This daily program from WNYC Studios cuts through the usual talk radio punditry and brings a smart, humane approach to the day's events and what matters most in local and national politics, our own communities and our lives. WNYC Studios is a listener-supported producer of other leading podcasts including Radiolab, On the Media, Death, Sex & Money, Nancy, and many others.
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"Caught" in the Juvenile Justice System
WNYC Studio's new podcast Caught tells the stories of young people -- who are disproportionately people of color -- caught in America's expansive juvenile justice system. Radio Rookies senior producer Kaari Pitkin and juvenile justice advocate Dwayne Betts, a Yale Law School graduate, Emerson Fellow at New America, author of the poetry collection Bastards of the Reagan Era(Four Way, 2015) and consultant to Caught, talk about the project. Betts says, "It's about how we haven't figured out how to be thoughtful when kids commit crimes" and says of his own experience in the juvenile justice system, "Nobody involved...imagined me as a successful adult."