for-their-own-good: MARIANNA, Fla. - Years of neglect have taken a toll on an abandoned dormitory at the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, Fla. Today, the school houses about 130 of the 6,000 juveniles in the custody of the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice. Formerly known as the Florida School for Boys, it is the state's oldest reform school and is burdened by a history of abuse. Through the years boys sentenced here have been badly beaten, chained to walls, and hogtied. Boys have been kept in isolation for extended periods, and driven crazy to the point of eating broken glass.
DELAND - Fla. - Aaron Burns, right, holds his head in his hands during a meeting at the Serenity House halfway house. In the twenty years that have passed since his time at the Arthur Dozier School for Boys, he has been to prison four times. Every time he was released, he told himself that he would stay out of trouble, but he never managed to stay on the straight and narrow.
