Meribah Knight takes us behind the scenes of her new podcast 'The Kids of Rutherford County'
In 2016, WPLN’s senior reporter and special projects producer Meribah Knight heard a disturbing story from Rutherford County, a suburban Tennessee community southeast of Nashville. A group of elementary schoolers were arrested for something that didn’t seem like a crime: watching a fight between other kids and not intervening.
Meribah dug in further and discovered a pattern of young kids in Rutherford County being jailed for minor offenses.
More: Black Children Were Jailed for a Crime That Doesn’t Exist. Almost Nothing Happened to the Adults in Charge.
The result of over seven years of…
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