We Carry Their Bones : The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys /
Search for justice at the Dozier School for Boys
Erin Kimmerle
- First edition
- x, 241 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-230) and index
Opening the earth -- New light -- Graveyard -- The Battle of Boot Hill -- "Satan has his seat" -- A meeting with the chief -- "Hell on Earth" -- "We can't forget... what happened in Jackson County" -- "Oftentimes, history doesn't include the good parts" -- "Thank you for all your good work" -- Reconstruction -- Identification -- "It's not even past" -- "Where is he?" -- "The unimaginable happened at Dozier" -- "You have the truth on your side" -- What remains
Recounts the story of the Dozier School, a Florida reform school shut down in 2011 due to reports of cruelty, abuse, and mysterious deaths, and the efforts of the author, a leading forensic anthropologist, to locate and exhume the graves of the boys buried there in order to reunite them with their families
Text in English
9780063030244 0063030241
Kimmerle, Erin H
Florida School for Boys--History
Reformatories--History--Florida Imprisonment--History--Florida Inmates of institutions--Abuse of--History--Florida Forensic anthropology--Florida--Case studies