Gray RohrerMarch 4, 2024
3min0
'No amount of money or restitution can truly be enough for what these children endured.'
Tag: Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys
Gray RohrerMarch 4, 2024
Florida PhoenixFebruary 29, 2024
7min0
‘This is the proof that we were telling the truth,’ one former Dozier victim said after the vote.
Kelly HayesNovember 30, 2021
6min1242
"I would go back to Vietnam tomorrow and serve in the jungles rather than go back one single day to the school at Marianna."
Jason DelgadoOctober 19, 2021
7min1398
An investigation uncovered rampant physical, sexual and mental abuse at the state-operated institution.
Kelly HayesJanuary 26, 2021
5min1367
The bill would help victims access compensation for their abuse.
Janelle Irwin TaylorNovember 7, 2019
5min465
The bill would establish a process to file claims.
Danny McAuliffeNovember 29, 20184min287
The Florida Cabinet will be asked to approve the transfer of approximately 360 acres of land to Jackson County during its final meeting on Tuesday. The land includes and surrounds parcels of the now-shuttered Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Marianna. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement closed Dozier in 2011 after confirming […]
Associated PressMay 5, 2017
1min180
The Florida Legislature has voted to rebury the bodies of children whose remains were found on the site of a now-shuttered reform school. The Florida Senate voted unanimously for a bill Friday that would also set aside money to build two memorials regarding the boys who lived and died at the Arthur G. Dozier School […]
Michael MolineApril 26, 20172min772
The Senate voted, 35-0, Wednesday to apologize for decades of abuse at the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys and Florida Schools for Boys at Okeechobee. Addressing 14 middle-aged and elderly survivors viewing from the Senate gallery, Sen. Daryl Rouson said: “We say to you, we apologize. We are sorry.” The House voted to apologize […]
Associated PressApril 4, 2017
1min231
Several men painfully recalled being beaten and sexually abused at a north Florida reform school as the state begins the steps to formally apologize for the horrors they endured more than 50 years ago. A Senate bill to recognize the abuse at the now-shuttered Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Marianna was unanimously approved […]