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.”
Source: flaglerlive.com
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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.
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.