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Billed as the state’s answer to juvenile delinquency in 1900, the Florida School for Boys, later called the Dozier School for Boys, grew into a profitable farming operation that ran on forced labor of thousands of troubled boys. By the late 1960s, the 1,400-acre Panhandle reformatory was the largest such institution in the country, and it was routinely scandalized due to unsanitary conditions, overcrowding, and extreme punishments. The state closed the school in 2011 after a new wave of scrutiny This program by journalist Ben Montgomery details the truth and reconciliation effort and adjacent impact of films, music, and books.
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