Editing Marianna, Florida (section)

===Florida School for Boys===

[[File:Florida Industrial School for Boys Marianna.jpg|thumb|Florida Industrial School for Boys]]
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The [[Florida School for Boys]], a large state [[reform school]], operated in Marianna from January 1, 1900, to June 30, 2011. For a time, it was the largest juvenile reform institution in the United States. Throughout its 111-year history, the school gained a reputation for abuse, beatings, rapes, and torture of students by staff. It was rumored that students had died there as a result of injuries. Despite periodic investigations, changes of leadership, and promises by the state to improve conditions, the allegations of cruelty and abuse continued.

Many of the allegations were confirmed by separate investigations by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement in 2010 and the Civil Rights Division of the [[United States Department of Justice]] in 2011. State authorities closed the school permanently in June 2011. In 2015, a multi-year investigation of the cemetery and grounds by the [[University of South Florida]] (USF), which was attempting to find undocumented burials on the grounds, revealed details of a secret "rape dungeon", where boys younger than 12 were sexually abused. It positively identified five bodies from remains recovered on the grounds.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Luscombe |first1=Richard |title='Rape Dungeon' Allegations Emerge in Abuse Report on Dozier School for Boys |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/06/dozier-school-for-boys-abuse-florida-new-allegations |access-date=7 February 2015 |newspaper=The Guardian |date=6 February 2015}}</ref> By January 2016, the end of the USF's studies of the grounds and exhumation of remains, it had identified 55 previously unknown burials, made a match for seven bodies through [[DNA]], and presumptively identified another 14 sets of remains of 51 found. Twenty-seven more graves were discovered in 2019.<ref>{{cite news
|title=Additional 27 suspected graves identified at Dozier School for Boys
|first=Jake
|last=Stofan
|date=April 11, 2019
|url=https://www.news4jax.com/news/florida/additional-27-suspected-graves-identified-at-dozier-school-for-boys
|newspaper=[[WJXT]] (news4jax)}}</ref> The team created a website containing documentation of their investigation and will continue to work with state agencies and families of former students to identify more remains.