Lawmakers Back Modest Reparations for Dozier School Victims
The Florida Senate measure would create a $20 million "Dozier School for Boys and Okeechobee School Victim Compensation Program.”
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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 appeared first on Flo
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.
A graveyard in Florida is nearly all that's left of Dozier School for Boys, where students endured mental, physical and sexual abuse.