According to a review by The Marshall Project, at least 34 boys who stayed at the infamous Dozier School and another 16 sent to Okeechobee — a separate boys’ school with a troubled history — ended up ...

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 ...

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.

A Jacksonville man is set to be executed Tuesday, but his time at an infamous state-run reform school as a child has some ...

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 ...

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

The Florida School for Boys would later in the 20th century be named the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys, where a team of forensic anthropologists would unearth the remains of 55 children in 2012.

Ahead of a Dec. 31 deadline, the state of Florida received more than 800 applications for restitution from people held at the Dozier school and its sister school in Okeechobee, Fla., attesting to ...

One survivor, Jerry Cooper, told NPR that during his first year at Dozier in 1961, he was dragged out of bed by school staff and taken to the “White House” at 2:00 a.m. Cooper said he was tied ...

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 ...