'Serial' Season 3, Looking At Criminal Justice System, To Debut September 20th

Season 3

The third season of "SERIAL" will debut on SEPTEMBER 20th and will examine the U.S. criminal justice system through the perspective of cases working their way through CLEVELAND's courts. Host/producer SARAH KOENIG and reporter DZOTSI spent over a year in CLEVELAND reporting on several cases highlighting disparities in treatment and punishment.  The season is a departure for the show, which had previously focused on single cases -- the ADNAN SYED and BOWE BERGDAHL cases -- for each of the first two seasons.

KOENIG said, “Every case EMMANUEL and I followed, there came a point where we thought: ‘No, this can’t be how it works. People who work in the system, or have been through the system, they know this. But millions more people do not. And for the past year I’ve had this urgent feeling of wanting to kind of hold open the courthouse door and wave people inside. Because things are happening -- shocking things, fascinating things -- in plain sight.”

New episodes of the podcast will post on THURSDAYS.

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