Abuses at infamous Florida boys reform school even more widespread

[nic34]

Institutional crime from the good ol' days of traditional values:

Scientists have found 19 previously unknown grave shafts on the grounds of a notorious Florida reform school, suggesting that many more boys died there amid brutal conditions than had previously been known, the researchers said Monday.

The Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, which was also known as the Florida State Reform School, closed in June 2011 after state investigators and the U.S. Justice Department's Civil Rights Division confirmed widespread abuse over many decades.

Records recovered and examined by the researchers indicate that at least 96 boys and two adults died at the school from 1914 to 1973. Most of boys who were committed to the school and died there were African-American.

But that may be only the tip of the iceberg: The researchers didn't have access to student records after 1960, when such documents became subject to privacy laws. Moreover, researchers couldn't test the entire area because of overgrowth and vegetative conditions, they said.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/10/15823192-abuses-at-infamous-florida-boys-reform-school-even-more-widespread-report-says?lite

[Mainecoons]

More government failure. Shall we double down on it, genius?

[Cigar]

More government failure. Shall we double down on it, genius?

Yea they would have been much better off released in your neighborhood rather than incarcerated

[nic34]

More government failure. Shall we double down on it, genius?

What, the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division exposing the abuse, or the state and local "governments" that let this happen for nearly a century?

genius.

[Chris]

Reads like it was researchers at a university what uncovered this, not the justice department.

HOw does governmental abuse reflect on traditional values?

[Ivan88]

When there is no "well regulated militia".....when government officials are not "well regulated" by the American Man, you get injustice, oppression, and slaughter.

We have been allowing this sort of stuff for over 150 years, because we are unable to "well regulate" our "public servants" and their "militia".

What if these guys plan to "clean up" everything with their "militia"?
1862

[Dr. Who]

What, the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division exposing the abuse, or the state and local "governments" that let this happen for nearly a century?

genius.
Institutional abuses were ubiquitous in all forms of residential care, whether it be reform schools or schools for the native population or private schools for the children of wealthy people. Wherever you had a captive population of children at one time, you attracted the sadistic as well as the pedophiles who thrived in these situations. The administration of these institutions did not want to know what was going on, and if they found out, preferred to move the offender to a different institution if possible, rather than admit anything untoward was happening to the kids.

It wasn't until residential school litigation started costing millions of dollars that the problems were addressed.

[Private Pickle]

Institutional crime from the good ol' days of traditional values:

Scientists have found 19 previously unknown grave shafts on the grounds of a notorious Florida reform school, suggesting that many more boys died there amid brutal conditions than had previously been known, the researchers said Monday.

The Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, which was also known as the Florida State Reform School, closed in June 2011 after state investigators and the U.S. Justice Department's Civil Rights Division confirmed widespread abuse over many decades.

Records recovered and examined by the researchers indicate that at least 96 boys and two adults died at the school from 1914 to 1973. Most of boys who were committed to the school and died there were African-American.

But that may be only the tip of the iceberg: The researchers didn't have access to student records after 1960, when such documents became subject to privacy laws. Moreover, researchers couldn't test the entire area because of overgrowth and vegetative conditions, they said.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/10/15823192-abuses-at-infamous-florida-boys-reform-school-even-more-widespread-report-says?lite

Nice implication on Conservatives there...

Hopefully the next Liberal biased thread comes up you will realize your hypocrisy and say: "Good ole movement to create a classless, moneyless and stateless social order"...

[Dr. Who]

Nice implication on Conservatives there...

Hopefully the next Liberal biased thread comes up you will realize your hypocrisy and say: "Good ole movement to create a classless, moneyless and stateless social order"...

These kids died between 1900 to 1960, which politial party does this implicate? Either, none? The fact is that children were murdered. The ones that survived were both physically and sexually abused. Really a disgusting and shameful period of history.

[Chris]

These kids died between 1900 to 1960, which politial party does this implicate? Either, none? The fact is that children were murdered. The ones that survived were both physically and sexually abused. Really a disgusting and shameful period of history.

That's right, and politicizing it as the OP did is just about as bad in that it minimizes the evil.