Episode 8: Searching for Justice

03/08/23 • 44 min

Unreformed: the Story of the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children

In the final episode, we look at where Lonnie, Mary, Johnny, Jennie, Johnny Mack, and Denny are fifty years after leaving Mt. Meigs. We also look at how juvenile justice in America has evolved and how other juvenile reform schools that mistreated their students have atoned for their wrongs. And lastly, we get a glimpse into the current state of Mt. Meigs. Has it changed? Or is it the same place it was more than fifty years ago?

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Unreformed: the Story of the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children - Episode 8: Searching for Justice

Transcript

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School of Humans. So remember back in episode one, at the beginning of this series, I talked about driving to Mount Meg's last July, about trying to get in the front gate, more than fifty years after Jenny, Johnny, Lonnie, Mary, Johnny Mack, and Jesse James Andrews had left. This was always a project about Mount Meg's back then rather than now. But the more I looked into the institution's history, the more I wanted to know what it was like today,