'Don't Break, Be Patient': When Survivors of Dozier, Okeechobee Schools Can Expect to Receive Compensation

Florida soon to pay Dozier, Okeechobee reform school victims

TALLAHASSEE — Hundreds of men who were abused as children at two notorious state reform schools are in line to receive checks of more than $21,000 in the coming days, as part of a $20 million reparations program approved last year by Florida lawmakers. The program, years in the making, will compensate people who were at the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Marianna and Okeechobee School in South Florida between 1940 and 1975 and “who were sub…

'Don't break, be patient': When survivors of Dozier, Okeechobee Schools can expect to receive compensation

In the coming days, more than 900 senior men should be getting a check from the state of Floridaits compensation for the abuse they suffered as children, at the hands of state employees inside a pair of reform schools.WATCH BELOW: 'Dont break, be patient,' Willie Potts tells WPTV's Jamie Ostroff When survivors can expect to receive compensationMen who were sent to the Florida School for Boys at Okeechobee and the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys…

Money Going to Reform School Victims

TALLAHASSEE — Hundreds of men who were abused as children at two notorious state reform schools are in line to receive checks of more than $21,000 in the coming days, as part of a $20 million reparations program approved last…