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

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

A movie based on north Florida's shuttered Arthur G ... or sexual abuse that occurred between 1940 and 1975 at the Dozier School in Marianna and at another school in Okeechobee.

"Nickel Boys" is based on a novel by the same name, about boys sent to the fictional "Nickel Academy" in Florida's panhandle, where they suffered horrific abuse. The details of the story were inspired ...

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

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 ...

Nickel Boys, which received Oscar nominations for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay, was shot almost entirely in the ...