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One of the greatest men I have ever known, shot and killed himself this Father s Day/Flag Day. He grew up fatherless and was raised by a mother who didn t have time for him.
He did not feel safe. A simple thing like leaving school books on a coffee table would result with him being beaten and pulled out of bed. He slept with a baseball bat by his bed.
During his early teens, he got in trouble. His mother said she couldn t handle him, so he was sent to reform school.
Florida School for Boys in Marianna, Fla., was portrayed as a stepping stone to teach and prepare boys for a healthy and proper path to adulthood. It was not.
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For 109 years in the State of Florida, juvenile offenders were sent to Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys if the Court found they committed a crime or violated terms of juvenile probation. The school was in Mariana, Florida. According to an investigation by the
Tampa Bay Times, the children housed at the facility were between the ages of 5 and 20 years old.
Frequently, these children were first time offenders who had committed non-violent offenses, like shoplifting or trespassing. For decades, the State of Florida removed troubled youth from their parent’s care and sent to them to the state-run reform school where they would be committed for extended periods of time.
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