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FL: Lawmakers to consider: Is it time to close the Dozier School for Boys?

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Lawmakers to consider: Is it time to close the Dozier School for Boys? By Ben Montgomery, Waveney Ann Moore and John Frank, Times Staff Writers Tuesday, March 9, 2010 TALLAHASSEE ? Florida's oldest reform school has survived a century of failure and scandal. Now lawmakers once again are confronted with an uncomfortable question: Is it time to shut the place down? At the start of another legislative session, Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Marianna is again struggling to keep kids safe. The school notorious for decades-old abuse has failed its state evaluation two years in a row. In the past five years, the Times has learned, boys have been beaten by guards, denied medical care and prevented from reporting abuse. The school has employed a mentally challenged man, a man who came to work high on cocaine and a man who broke his wife's shoulder...continue to full post

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