marianna

Looks at the events surrounding the closing of the Dozier School for Boys in Florida, a reform school that had been in use for one hundred years, in which several of the students were physically and sexually abused.

A memoir of the author's experiences while incarcerated at the Florida Industrial School for Boys at Marianna in the late 1950s, covering the verbal, sexual, and physical abuse suffered by many, as well as the investigation into more than thirty unmarked graves in the surrounding area.