The sordid history of this State of Florida institution has been in the news again and again. The story of the Dozier School for Boys was detailed in a DKos diary on Jan 11, 2012 by floridagal called Florida in 2011: "Hell's 1400 acres" closed after 100 years. Article from 1968 detailing abuse.
TRIGGER WARNING FOR THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN ABUSED AND MAY FIND THE LINKS TO BE UPSETTING.
The wonderful floridagal posted her diary on Dozier 6 months after the "school" was closed in June 2011. Dozier had been in and out of the news for some years, since bones and graves just kept being found and investigations kept being ordered and nothing was ever done or resolved, just like nothing was done or resolved for many of the boys who were maliciously clapped into the Dozier School for Boys. They were subjected to severe punishment and torture in a building called The White House.
The living Alumni of the Dozier School for Boys have a Web site at http://www.officialwhitehouseboys.org/... which details their abuse and monstrous treatment by guards and fellow inmates. Please take some time to explore the site and marvel at the indifference of authorities over the decades.