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 Emily Bazelon traces that change through the lives of people who pass through a special court in New York City designed to be a speedy machine for the harsh punishment of illegal gun possession. Along the way she’ll pose the big, thorny questions that are at the center of the national conversation about reform: What exactly makes someone a criminal? Can you ever really outrun that label? And if you’re gonna take apart the machine we’ve built in America to punish people, what do you put in its place?
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Bonus: Introducing Aftereffect
Episode 9: 'You Just Sit There and Wait for the Next Day to Come'
Episode 8: 'I Want Someone to Love Me Even for a Second'
Episode 7: 'It’s the Hardest Thing I’ve Ever Done'
Episode 6: 'Please Lock Up My Kid'
Episode 5: 'The Teenage Brain Is Like a Sports Car'
Episode 4: 'Oh My God, What Have I Done?'
Episode 3: 'He Really Wants to Shoot Someone'
Episode 2: 'They Look at Me Like a Menace'
Episode 1: 'I Just Want You to Come Home'
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