It Was Kind of Like Slavery

This is a heartbreaking story of young boys who were betrayed by those who were ostensibly there to help and guide them.

reuters.com

Between  1900 and 2011 tens of thousands of boys attended the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys, a reform school in Marianna, Florida.  The grounds appeared idyllic but what went on inside the walls was horrific. Over the course of 111 years Dozier gained a reputation for abuse, beatings, rapes, torture and murder of students by staff but it was not until 2011 that a Florida Justice Department investigation uncovered “systemic, egregious, and dangerous practices” at the school. Official records say at least 96 children died at Dozier between 1914 and 1973.

Five men who attended the institution talk about their experiences at Mother Jones.

Via Miss C