The 'White House Boys' demand state action
They were screwed-up kids, sent to the reform school in Marianna for smoking, fighting, stealing cars or worse. The Florida School for Boys -- that'd straighten them out.
Fifty years later they are, by their own account, screwed-up men -- afraid of the dark, unable to love or be loved, twisted by anger, scarred by the whippings they endured in a cinder block hell called the White House.
Now, Gov. Charlie Crist has ordered the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to investigate 31 graves near the school. (story here)
Fifty years later they are, by their own account, screwed-up men -- afraid of the dark, unable to love or be loved, twisted by anger, scarred by the whippings they endured in a cinder block hell called the White House.
Now, Gov. Charlie Crist has ordered the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to investigate 31 graves near the school. (story here)
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