Former inmates at the old Florida School for Boys, in Marianna, which was part of the state’s reform school system, are suing the state. Some 87 men say they were brutally abused as boys at the school.
The Daily News reports:
“We want those individuals that have committed the crimes to be brought to justice and to account for their crimes,” said Bryant Middleton of Fort Walton Beach, one of four men representing the class as plaintiffs.
In 1959, Middleton, now 63, was held at the Florida School for Boys – open today as the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Marianna – where he said he routinely was beaten in a small cinder-block building known as “the White House.” Others, the lawsuit alleges, were killed and buried on school grounds.
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