Men Scarred by Abuse at Florida Reform School Seek End to Pain In St. Petersburg Times, TampaBay.Com Special Report
Wayward young men were sent to a North Florida reform school to get straightened out. But for more than 100 years, it was a place of nightmares and abuse. Now, questions are being asked again about the reform school in Marianna, Fla., where the boys went in damaged and came out destroyed. Read the St. Petersburg Times special report at magazine.tampabay.com.
St. Petersburg, FL (PRWEB) April 17, 2009 -- They were screwed-up kids, sent to the reform school in Marianna for smoking, fighting, stealing cars - or worse. The Florida School for Boys http://tampabay.com/features/magazine/- that'd straighten them out.
Go to www.magazine.tampabay.com to read about how these broken men have joined together to testify to what their keepers did to them in the name of the state of Florida.
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."
They have joined together, these broken men, to testify to what their keepers did to them in the name of the state. They want compensation. But mostly they want an end to the pain.
In a special report that appears online April 17 at magazine.tampabay.com and in print April 19, Times writers Ben Montgomery and Waveney Ann Moore and photographer Edmund D. Fountain take you inside the rank hallways of the "White House," where boys once bit down on pillows and braced themselves for the lash.
How could this happen? What should be done? Those are questions that have been asked again and again about the reform school, where boys went in troubled and came out destroyed.
About the St. Petersburg Times and TampaBay.com
The St. Petersburg Times is Florida's largest newspaper with an average circulation of 390,289 Sunday and 268,935 daily (ABC publisher's statement 9/30/08). Considered one of the top ten newspapers in the country, the newspaper has six Pulitzer Prizes to its name.
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