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Death Island is a true crime podcast that investigates the mysterious deaths of dozens of tourists on the island of Koh Tao in Thailand.
The number of children incarcerated in penitentiaries has doubled since 1997, with approximately 200,000 children entering the adult criminal justice system in the US every year, mostly for nonviolent crimes.
This podcast explores how America became the best at locking children away in criminal facilities, and delves into the legal justification behind this history, which started in the 1960s.
The podcast discusses the history of children's rights in the United States and the fight for juvenile justice in the courts.
In the mid-1990s, a study found that many children were waiving their right to counsel without understanding what they were doing. The decline in children's rights is attributed to trial judges' bias towards kids and insidious methods that prevent children from poor families from being assigned a lawyer.
The 1995 paper coauthored by John DeLulio and James Q. Wilson helped fuel a series of dehumanizing narratives, resulting in harsher criminal punishment, increased police surveillance, and the mass incarceration of young people of color.
A discussion on how school shootings in the 1990s led to an increase in criminalizing children and the consequences it had on their education and lives.
The myth of the "Texas miracle" is examined, as it is revealed that what was considered a booming success story was actually a dramatic failure by the state to adequately educate their children, leading to a generation of students being left behind.
Schools with school resource officers have almost five times the arrest rate as schools without.Schools play an integral role in the school to prison pipeline by involving law enforcement in school discipline and disproportionately influencing students of color and special needs students.
The speaker recounts incidents in their parents' special education classes, including a child smashing their face on a bus window and a cop assaulting and charging an 11-year-old student.
A 17 year old high school student in Texas was tasered by an SRO while trying to break up a school fight. The incident has raised concerns over the use of force by school resource officers.
The school to prison pipeline is a phenomenon in which students, particularly Black and brown students, are punished harshly for minor infractions, leading them into the criminal justice system. Despite the increased presence of police officers in schools, there is no evidence to suggest that they reduce crime, and students report feeling less safe in their schools.
The high recidivism rate among youth offenders in the US is a result of the broken juvenile justice system which focuses on punishment instead of rehabilitation, leading to calls to pull cops out of schools.
The island of Ko Tao may seem picturesque, but its dark reputation has many tourists unnerved. Meanwhile, Tokyo's massage parlors have a seedy side that some travelers have unfortunately encountered.