Jerry Cooper says he endured torture and cruelty that were everyday things for decades at a reform school in Florida, turning him into something horrible.
As authorities prepare to investigate a possible new set of unmarked graves on the school grounds after dozens were found a few years ago, apologies are finally coming in. But 60 years after he was abused, Cooper says they are not enough.
or Dozier as it was called, was a reform school that stretched over 1,400 acres in Marianna in northwest Florida -- the same area hit by Hurricane Michael in October of last year. She was referring to a group of anthropologists from the University of South Florida that found 55 unmarked graves on the grounds of the school. That probe took four years and ended in 2016.The place was sheer hell, he recalls.
These are not just made up stories. Lots of people who went through the school say it was a nightmare. Some did not survive the ordeal. In 2008, survivors of Dozier created a group called the"White House Boys" in an effort to force the state to acknowledge its role in the torture of children.Today all the members of the group, now led by Cooper, are around 70 years old and they number some 300. Many are felons.
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