 Do you remember what year it was that you were you were arrested and jailed? I was so young that I don't even remember what what was going on in that time. Yeah, right. And so you were how old were you? Seven. Oh my god. When Brandon was just seven years old police showed up at his door to arrest him. Brandon's offense tagging along with his older brothers who'd wrestled in a vacant duplex and left some holes in the drywall. Now police were there to take Brandon and his brothers to the juvenile detention center jail basically. My mom said that they weren't going to take me in but they were like well he needs to learn his lesson. Brandon was held in detention overnight and then brought to the juvenile court for his hearing. They had me in shackles from our feet to our arms going into court. Brandon should have gone home with his mom that day but when he went before the judge she sent him back to jail for a week. Brandon's arrest and detention happened in Rutherford County, Tennessee and his case wasn't unique there. For over a decade the county was arresting and jailing kids for even the most minor offenses. I didn't want to go to school. I just ran away. I spray painted a penis on a wall. It happened so often to so many kids in Rutherford County that getting sent to juvenile detention was almost a rite of passage. In many cases what it also was was illegal. This is the story of how that system came to be, how it came to be normalized, accepted, lauded even. It's also the story of two insiders who actually did see the problem in Rutherford County. They would sit out and smoke a cigarette and say we're going to burn this place to the ground. They just needed other people to see it too. From serial productions and the New York Times I'm Meribun Knight and this is the kids of Rutherford County coming October 26th. I feel like it was like a dream that never happened.