Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The legacy of north Florida's infamous Dozier school continues even after its doors closed for the last time in 2011. Executed ...

TALLAHASSEE — Hundreds of men who were abused as children at two notorious state reform schools are in line to receive checks of more than $21,000 in the coming days, as part of a $20 million ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Hundreds of men who were abused as children at two notorious state reform schools are in line to receive checks of more than $21,000 in the coming days, as part of a $20 million ...

VALDOSTA, Ga. — A group of abuse survivors at Florida's reform schools is feeling unheard and seeking answers to why they're not eligible for compensation. They reached out to WPTV after the debut of ...

STARKE, Fla. — A man set to be executed Tuesday is making a final plea to spare his life. Attorneys for convicted killer Victor Tony Jones asked the U.S. Supreme Court to consider the abuse he ...

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An investigative report by the nonprofit, non-partisan journalist group The Marshall Project has found that at least 34 men who were sent to the Dozier School for Boys in Mariana later ended up on ...

A scene of the campus at the Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, Florida on June 29, 2024. / Aerial view looking north over a section of campus at the School for Boys in Marianna, Florida. Circa 1900.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — More than a hundred graduates gathered on Thursday in Pinellas County to celebrate one shared achievement — a high school diploma. For one graduate, walking across a stage in a ...

Researchers say they have exhumed the remains of 55 people at Florida's Dozier School for Boys, a notorious reform school that closed in 2011. The total found by University of South Florida ...

A new report found that former students of the Dozier and Okeechobee reform schools have killed at least 114 people. The report also found that 50 former students from these schools make up 19% of ...