Episode 7: The Aftermath
03/01/23 • 35 min
Many people who were incarcerated at Mt. Meigs as children ended up spending their entire lives tethered to the criminal legal system. Many were sentenced to life in prison. Many others were sentenced to death. This episode traces the lives of two of those people: Jesse James Andrews and Johnny Mack Young.
If you or someone you know attended Mt. Meigs and would like to connect with us, please email [email protected].
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Many people who were incarcerated at Mt. Meigs as children ended up spending their entire lives tethered to the criminal legal system. Many were sentenced to life in prison. Many others were sentenced to death. This episode traces the lives of two of those people: Jesse James Andrews and Johnny Mack Young.
If you or someone you know attended Mt. Meigs and would like to connect with us, please email [email protected].
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Unreformed: the Story of the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children - Episode 7: The Aftermath
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School of Humans. Please note that this episode discusses physical and sexual abuse, and another note, lots of the audio in this episode is from thirty year old deposition hearings. The rest was recorded from phone calls with someone incarcerated, so warning that parts of this are a little hard to hear. In nineteen seventy nine, in Los Angeles, two men, Jesse James Andrews and Charles Sanders, stood at the door of Preston Wheeler's apartment. Pre
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