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Kids have been abused throughout the 100-year history of the state's oldest reform school, through cycle after cycle of investigation and reform. But what is the school like today? Documents reveal underpaid staff, bloody noses and broken bones. How much has the Dozier School for Boys really changed?
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 The Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys today.
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BY BEN MONTGOMERY AND WAVENEY ANN MOORE Times Staff Writers
Photography by EDMUND D. FOUNTAIN
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THE LATEST:
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- Suit alleges former Dozier school abused three boys
A class-action lawsuit filed in federal court Friday claims kids are still being abused and mistreated at the notorious Department of Juvenile Justice program in rural Marianna, now in its 111th year of operation. (March 1, 2011)
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- For their own good
A St. Petersburg Times special report on child abuse at the Florida School for Boys (April 19, 2009)
- 100 years later and it's still hell
Bloody noses. Broken bones. At the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys, reform seems to be mostly in the rhetoric.
(Oct. 11, 2009) - About this story
 Child Institutional Investigation
Reports (PDFs):
Jan. 1, 2005
Jan. 24, 2006
July 6, 2006
May 31, 2007
May 2, 2008
June 27, 2008
Aug. 30, 2008
Sept 21, 2008
Dec. 21, 2008
RELATED STORIES
- Infamous school for boys will shed the Dozier name (May 12, 2010)
- A Times Editorial: Either fix it or close it (October 13, 2009)
- Florida juvenile justice officials tout changes at Dozier School for Boys, but don't show them (October 14, 2009)
- Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys fails annual evaluation (December 30, 2009)
- Transcript of 3 months' of e-mails about requested public documents (February 7, 2010)
- Superintendent of Marianna boys' school was on the way out, records show (January 22, 2010)
- Lawmakers to consider: Is it time to close the Dozier School for Boys? (March 9, 2010)
- Change is coming to Dozier, officials say (March 11, 2010)
- More special reports
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| "He needed help and counselling, not to lock the door and throw away the key," Mark Caldwell says of his son. |
"I don't want to see anybody who made a mistake like I did go through what I did in there," said Matthew Schroeder. |
"They knew I had a learning disability. They'd make fun of me," said John Bennett a former guard at Dozier. |
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RELATED WEB SITES
Web sites of the White House Boys:
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CHILD-ADVOCACY WEB SITES
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For Their Own Good
In this special report on Florida juvenile justice and the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys, DCF records show that abuse still occurs at the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys, where men who call themselves the White House Boys were beaten bloody in the 1960s. The Florida juvenile justice department says the days of abuse that tortured the White House Boys are over at the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys, aka the Florida School for Boys. This is part two of the St. Petersburg Times special report on Florida juvenile justice and the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys.
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