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Digging up the past
By jjie.org
Published: 09/09/2013

Sometimes, only by unearthing the skeletons of a tortured past can they be given a proper burial. That is what is happening in Marianna, in North Florida, literally and figuratively.

A team of researchers, including anthropologists, archeologists, students and police detectives are searching, painstakingly, for the remains of young boys once confined to the Dozier School for Boys. Dozens of them died in state custody in the “reform” school and were buried without dignity, without notice to the next of kin, without a trace.

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