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So I'm really excited for today's episode.

Artie and I are joined by friend of the panel, Seth Prins, who is here today to discuss the

school to prison pipeline and the impact of carcerality on public health.

Seth is a psychiatric epidemiologist and an assistant professor

of epidemiology and sociomedical sciences at Columbia University. Seth, welcome to the death panel.

I'm so glad you're here today. Thanks so much for having me. It's a pleasure to be here.

Really overdue. But so, Seth, one of the main reasons that we wanted to have you on today was to talk about a study

that you co-authored that provides some of the first empirical evidence supporting the

hypothesis that school discipline has negative consequences for adolescent health and development.

School discipline, which is sometimes called like zero tolerance

discipline programs, are what initiate what is commonly called the school to prison pipeline.

The idea being that criminalizing children improves the safety of communities and schools.

But before we get into the study itself and talk through what some of your research shows

about the health consequences of this framework, can you start us off by specific? But before we get into the study itself and talk through what some of your research shows about

the health consequences of this framework, can you start us off by first talking about what

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