S15 E3 The brain of a Nickel Boy

University of Miami School of Law: Explainer

Earlier this summer, a 54-year-old death row inmate in Florida’s prison system was executed for committing several murders. as a teenager, Michael Bell had spent time at the state’s notorious Arthur G. Dozier school for boys, the subject of the St. Petersburg times 2009 expose “For Their Own Good,” and “The Nickel Boys,” a fictionalized work based on dozier by Colson Whitehead, adapted into a twice Oscar nominated 2024 movie. innocence clinic director Craig Trocino susses out recent research into the connections between traumatic abuse and propensity to commit heinous crimes. Recorded on August 27, 2025.