27 possible graves found near 'hellish' reform school where dozens of boys died
Miami - Workers who were preparing for a massive cleanup of a fuel storage site near one of the nation's most notorious reform schools have discovered something far worse than ground pollution: evidence of 27 possible "clandestine" graves.
"Unmarked graves, by conscious design, are made to be hiding places," said Jack Levine, a Florida childrens' advocate who had raised concerns about Dozier when he was a young social worker for the state. "What stays hidden almost forgives the crime." That's where officers took them, they said, to be beaten - sometimes scores of times - with a leather strap inlaid with metal. The boys would be forced to lay prone on a filthy cot in a cell that became speckled with blood and slivers of human flesh. Some of the men also said they had been taken to a "rape room" where officers sexually assaulted them. Others say were aware of children who were killed there.
In December 2018, Florida deeded the Dozier campus over to Jackson County, a move to which many of the White House Boys strongly objected. Many of the now-elderly detainees favored turning the site into a memorial or museum. Even at its founding, the black campus was anything but equal. Reports by lawmakers in 1911 and 1913 described the white detainees' quarters as "neatly kept," housing "comfortably clad" and "happy" children. The "Negro School," however, was "more in the nature of a convict camp."
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