WNYC Studio's modern 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 modern America, and author of the poetry collection Bastards of the Reagan Era (Four Way,2015) and consultant to Caught, talk about the project. Betts says, and "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."
Source: thetakeaway.org