What Happens When You Ask Kids In Prison How To Fix The Justice System?
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That’s the idea behind Caught, a new podcast from WNYC where young kids who have experienced arrest and detention tell their stories–and suggest ways to move beyond our current system.
In 1996, Dwayne Betts, then 16 years old, walked out of a courtroom with a sentence for nine years in prison; he’d flashed a gun at someone in a suburban mall and stolen his car. Betts, now a lawyer who represents young people facing trial, still remembers what the judge said to him before sending him off: “I am under no illusion that sending you to prison will help.”