[Pontiac]

If you read both articles it is pretty hard to argue with the Physical evidence and the shallowness of the state's investigation should embarrass the state of Florida. The state found no evidence of wrong doing. Yet the state found only 31 graves. The scientist found 55 graves. The state did not find that the grave yard was not even in the same place as the graves. The state did not even glean the correct number of deaths at the school from the written records.

There are fairly large number of men that come forward that are former inmates at the 'school' that tell detailed stories of abuse at the hands of specific guards. These men could be call witnesses. Witnesses to crimes.

Not all of the boys were delinquents. Some were termed incorrigibles. Some were runaways.

So if you are looking for a more balanced investigation of this unsavory bit of history I don't know where you are going to find it.

[marktwain]

We are looking at things that happened from about 1916 to 1970, it appears.

I do not doubt that some bad things happened. There wasn’t much oversight of reformatories before about 1970.

I read both articles, but I had to go to a third link to discover some meat in investigations done in the 50’s

The author went to a lot of trouble to track down people with stories of abuse.

I would have liked to see an interview explaining what problems the staff had, and how they attempted to deal with them, for example.

It sounds like a pretty bad place, but I would still like to know how many boys went through the place. 10,000? 100,000? I did not see that article anywhere.