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.”
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
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