Hundreds apply for restitution for abuse suffered at Florida reform schools
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Hundreds apply for restitution for abuse suffered at Florida reform schools

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Hundreds of people who say they suffered physical or sexual abuse at two state-run reform schools in Florida are in line to receive tens of thousands of dollars in restitution from the state, after Florida lawmakers formally apologized for the horrors they endured as children more than 50 years ago. “I would rather be sent back into the jungles of Vietnam than to spend one single day at the Florida School for Boys.” Allegations of abuse have hung over the Dozier school since soon after it opened in 1900, with reports of children being chained to the walls in irons. “If one of your kids were kept in such circumstances,” Kirk said then, “you’d be up there with rifles.” Florida officials closed Dozier in 2011, following state and federal investigations and news reports documenting the abuses.

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Hundreds apply for restitution for abuse suffered at Florida reform schools
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Hundreds apply for restitution for abuse suffered at Florida reform schools

Associated Press  

Hundreds of people who say they suffered physical or sexual abuse at two state-run reform schools in Florida are in line to receive tens of thousands of dollars in restitution from the state, after Florida lawmakers formally apologized for the horrors they endured as children more than 50 years ago. Ahead of a Dec. 31 deadline, the state of Florida …

Hundreds apply for restitution for abuse suffered at Florida reform schools
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Hundreds apply for restitution for abuse suffered at Florida reform schools

LA Times  

The buildings that housed the Dozier School for Boys are shown in a 2011 image. In recent years, hundreds of men have come forward to recount brutal beatings, sexual assaults, deaths and disappearances at the notorious reform school in the Florida panhandle. Hundreds of people who say they suffered physical or sexual abuse at two state-run reform schools in Florida …

Florida passes bill to compensate victims of decades-old reform school abuse
1 year ago

Florida passes bill to compensate victims of decades-old reform school abuse

Associated Press  

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Restitution for decades of abuse at two now-shuttered reform schools where boys were beaten, raped and killed is now in the hands of Republican Gov. “It’s been too long,” said state Sen. Darryl Rouson, the Democrat who As he spoke, a group of about 20 victims stood in the Senate public gallery, one wiping tears from his …

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