Survivors of the Dozier School for Boys will finally be able to apply ... They had men to hold you down while they beat you ...

In the mid-1960s, at the age of 16, Gary Hay was ripped away from his parents and sent to the Arthur G Dozier School for Boys, in Marianna, Florida. A boyish error of ...

Five-hundred boys were placed at what is now referred to as the Dozier School for Boys during that time; they were housed there for minor offenses like absenteeism from school or petty theft.

The details of the story were inspired by the real story of the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, a town roughly 60 miles west of Tallahassee. Arthur G. Dozier School attendees share ...

Dozier was opened in 1900 as a reform school for juvenile delinquents, some of whom were as young as eight when they arrived on site. At its peak, between the 1950s and the 1970s, about 600 boys a ...

MARIANNA, Fla (WDHN) — The story of the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys has haunted the Wiregrass and Florida panhandle for decades. A story that is now being brought to the silver screen.

At its peak in the Jim Crow 1960s, 500 boys were housed at what is now known as the Dozier School for Boys, most of them for minor offenses such as petty theft, truancy or running away from home.

FILE - In this July 13, 2011 photo, the buildings that housed the Dozier School for Boys. (AP Photo/Brendan Farrington, File) ...

Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, Florida. The graveyard is believed to have been where juveniles who disappeared from a notorious Old South reform school more than a half-century ago were ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — 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 ...