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After enduring savage beatings and sexual abuse at two now-closed Florida reform schools, victims may finally see state compensation.

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.

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.

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

New legislation making its way through the Florida House and Senate would compensate former students at Florida's infamous Dozier Reform School.

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

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