For their own good
They were screwed-up kids, sent to the reform school in Marianna for smoking, fighting, stealing cars or worse. The Florida School for Boys -- that'd straighten them out.
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.
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I hope people realize that such places are not just "history." Under our current system and in our present culture, troubled youth are still vulnerable to abuse. The repercussions not only affect individuals, they adversely affect the society as a whole.