Okeechobee School News Today

Tananarive Due’s great uncle was one of the boys who died at the Florida reform school.

The Florida Senate measure would create a $20 million "Dozier School for Boys and Okeechobee School Victim Compensation Program.”

The Senate Fiscal Policy Committee supports SB 24 to create a $20 compensation program for former students of the Dozier School for Boys.

Quality Journalism for Critical Times For more than a decade, victims who suffered from rapes and beatings while attending the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in North Florida have told their painful, gut-wrenching stories to state lawmakers about that abuse — but have never received compensation for their pain and suffering. That may now change, after a committee in […] The post FL Sen Committee approves $20 million compensation to Dozier School victims who suffered abuse appeare...

VALDOSTA — As Florida legislators debate their responsibility for atrocities committed at the Dozier School for Boys, a Valdosta man is watching closely.

Decades later, survivors known as "The White House Boys" still struggle when recalling the mental, physical and sexual abuse they endured while in the state's care at the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Marianna.

VALDOSTA — As Florida legislators debate their responsibility for atrocities committed at the Dozier School for Boys, a Valdosta man is watching closely.

When Ralph Freeman was just a boy, he tried to run.

A bipartisan bill going through the legislature would establish the Dozier School for Boys and Okeechobee School Victim Compensation Program.

Some men sent to the Florida school as boys spoke to lawmakers about the horrors they faced at the state-run facility.