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Man Recalls Horrors Of Florida Reform School

Dick Colon, a member of the White House Boys, walks through grave sites near the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, Fla., Oct. 21, 2008. (Phil Coale/AP)

Roger Dean Kiser was 12 years old when he was first sent to the Florida School for Boys in Marianna. That was in 1959.

The state-run reform school became the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys.

In the 1950s and 1960s, former residents say they were beaten and some of their friends were killed.

“The first thing I noticed is men would come into the dorms at night and the boys would be taken out,” Kiser told Here & Now. “Some would never come back.” ...

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