Ray Watford spent more than a year at Florida’s Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in the 1960s, where boys who were often ...

Vulnerable boys, many of whom were simply poor, unwanted, were subjected to abuse, beatings, solitary confinement, and ...

This 2013 file photo shows thirty-one metal crosses in the Boot Hill cemetery, at the now closed Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, Florida. The graveyard is believed to have been where ...

A movie based on north Florida's shuttered Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys has received two Oscar nominations for the 2025 ...

Nickel Boys, directed by RaMell Ross, has received Oscar nominations for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay.

Filmmaker RaMell Ross premiered his Tallahassee-set film Nickel Boys Thursday night, the first screening in the city after ...

Last spring, the Florida legislature passed ... He was born in Marianna and grew up in Graceville and Tampa. He was in the Dozier School from January 1967 until May 1968. Send letters to the ...