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.

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 ...

In 2011, the Dozier school was shuttered — after 111 years of operation. There will be safeguards for handing out the money, assuming this measure is finally approved.

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 ...

In 2015, the remains of more than 50 boys were unearthed on the school grounds. Charles told us writing the personal testimony recounting his time at Dozier was difficult.