Caught

Caught episodes:

• 06.05.2019

  Like 'Caught'? Try 'The Stakes'

  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 better and why we have to. In this episode, hear from Kristin, a gender fluid, pansexual 21-year-old. She takes Kai into her...

  
• 05.08.2019

  Introducing Charged

  For as long as anyone can remember, criminal justice in America has meant one thing: punishment. In the last few years, however, that has begun to change. In a six-part narrative miniseries called Charged, New York Times Magazine staff writer...

  
• 06.29.2018

  Bonus: Introducing Aftereffect

  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 Arnaldo Rios Soto, a 26-year old, non-speaking, autistic man. Aftereffect tells Arnaldo's story -- a hidden world of psych wards,...

  
• 03.28.2018

  Episode 9: 'You Just Sit There and Wait for the Next Day to Come'

  Rikers Island has ended the traditional use of solitary confinement for juveniles. New York State banned it more broadly, but only for juveniles that have already been sentenced. In many counties, pre-trial juvenile offenders are still put in solitary. In this...

  
• 03.27.2018

  Episode 8: 'I Want Someone to Love Me Even for a Second'

  Girls make up only a small fraction of the incarcerated juvenile population, but girls often land in detention because they have experienced some form of trauma: abusive families, bad experiences in the foster care system, and especially sexual abuse. Policy experts even...

  
• 03.26.2018

  Episode 7: 'It’s the Hardest Thing I’ve Ever Done'

  The justice system isn’t the catch-all for every struggling kid. Desperate parents with means can turn to a whole network of private programs before their kids even get caught. The state of Utah houses a $400 million industry for just such...

  
• 03.23.2018

  Episode 6: 'Please Lock Up My Kid'

  Status offenses are acts only considered crimes if committed by young people – things like running away, not going to school, or missing curfew. They are designed to keep at risk youth safe, but in practice, they can also become a pipeline into the...

  
• 03.21.2018

  Episode 5: 'The Teenage Brain Is Like a Sports Car'

  Stephen is one of thousands of so-called "juvenile lifers" who have an unexpected shot at freedom today. Up until 2005, most juveniles could be sentenced just as harshly as adults: that meant life without parole, even the death penalty. Then...

  
• 03.19.2018

  Episode 4: 'Oh My God, What Have I Done?'

  Honor has struggled for years with leukemia, homelessness and suicide attempts. On the anniversary of his leukemia diagnosis, he reached a breaking point: A terrifying eruption that he still refers to as only "the incident." Like many young people who struggle with mental illness,...

  
• 03.16.2018

  Episode 3: 'He Really Wants to Shoot Someone'

  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 everything for kids and criminal justice. In 1978, Bosket murdered two people on the New York City...

  
• 03.14.2018

  Episode 2: 'They Look at Me Like a Menace'

  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 biggest problem is his temper. Z is a kid who's had mental health challenges...

  
• 03.12.2018

  Episode 1: 'I Just Want You to Come Home'

  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 charge—his young life has been defined by cops and courts. Dwayne Betts is a...

  
• 02.28.2018

  Coming Soon: Mass Incarceration Starts Young

  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 criminal justice system. In Caught, a new podcast from WNYC, we'll listen as...