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All kids make dumb mistakes. But depending on your zip code, race or just bad luck, those mistakes can have a lasting impact. Mass incarceration starts young. In Caught: The Lives of Juvenil...

From host Kai Wright and the team that brought you Caught , The Stakes is a new show about what's not working in our society, how we can do...

For as long as anyone can remember, criminal justice in America has meant one thing: punishment. In the last few years, however, that has be...

From WNYC Studios, a new podcast called Aftereffect we thought you might enjoy. In the summer of 2016, a police shooting upended the life of...

Rikers Island has ended the traditional use of solitary confinement for juveniles. New York State banned it more broadly, but only for juven...

Girls make up only a small fraction of the incarcerated juvenile population, but girls often land in detention because they have experienced...

The justice system isn’t the catch-all for every struggling kid. Desperate parents with means can turn to a whole network of private program...

Status offenses are acts only considered crimes if committed by young people – things like running away, not going to school, or missing cur...

Stephen is one of thousands of so-called "juvenile lifers" who have an unexpected shot at freedom today. Up until 2005, most juveniles could...

Honor has struggled for years with leukemia, homelessness and suicide attempts. On the anniversary of his leukemia diagnosis, he reached a b...

At age 15, Z received his sentence in adult court. The reason why dates back 40 years, to a child named Willie Bosket. His crimes changed ev...

In our first episode, we met Z. He's locked up because he and a group of friends robbed someone with a gun. But now that he's inside, his bi...

Z had his first encounters with law enforcement when he was just 12 years old. Now, at 16, he’s sitting in detention on an armed robbery cha...

The United States locks up more people than any country in the world. That starts young: Roughly a million kids a year get caught up in the...