Dr. George Woods is a neuropsychiatry specialist in California who offered expert testimony in the 2010 case of another death ...

Michael Bell's execution highlights the troubling legacy of childhood trauma inflicted at Florida's reform schools, raises ...

A nonprofit identified at least 50 people who attended Dozier and Okeechobee, a similar state-run reform school, who ended up ...

Michael Bell, scheduled for execution July 15, is one of dozens of death row inmates who were students at Florida's infamously abusive Dozier school.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Criminal Court Judge Steve Dozier ruled that Shaquille Taylor is competent to stand trial. Taylor ...

For decades, the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys was a house of horrors for young kids. Students suffered everything from beatings to sexual ...

Hundreds of men abused as children at notorious Florida reform schools will finally receive over $21,000 each, a testament to years of advocacy for acknowledgement and reparations. For decades, the ...

WPTV's Chief Investigative Reporter Jamie Ostroff spent the last year speaking with survivors of the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys and Florida School for Boys at Okeechobee They were only ...

A movie based on north Florida's shuttered Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys has received two Oscar nominations for the 2025 Academy Awards. The film, "Nickel Boys," is an adaptation of a Pulitzer ...

Allegations of abuse have hung over the Dozier school since soon after it opened in 1900, with reports of children being chained to the walls in irons.

Only Dozier School survivors — not their heirs or estates — are eligible to apply for compensation. Many of them are in their 70s and 80s.

Hundreds of victims of the Dozier School for Boys have been approved for compensation according to the Florida Attorney General’s Office and one local victim just learned he’d been approved ...