Tag: dozier school for boys
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September 16, 2009 07:51 AM EDT --
“Kiser, get down to Hatton’s office,” yelled my instructor of the dry cleaning department.
I began turning off the steam going to my press as it was almost time to shut down the operation . . .
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June 09, 2008 04:46 PM EDT --
As this is the anniversary of my orphan brother Davids death; I thought I would repost this story
"SISSY-BOYS"
As we kids left the dining room at the orphanage, my friend David . . .
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October 23, 2008 03:00 PM EDT --
This e-mail was received by me this morning from an Army Ranger. He too suffered the wrath and beatings of the "White House." I sat listening to him cry like a baby remembering the six beatings . . .
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October 24, 2008 11:54 AM EDT --
SAVING THE WARDEN
The closing and sealing of the White House Torture Chamber doors, at the old Florida School for Boys Reformatory, located in Marianna, Florida, was a very special day for me.
Five . . .
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October 24, 2008 01:21 PM EDT --
In the 1950s and '60s, the Florida State Reform School in Marianna, where many young male offenders wound up, had a notorious reputation. Backyard scuttlebutt, especially among teenagers, is often . . .
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October 12, 2008 04:33 PM EDT --
Those of you who have read my books and stories know of the horrors we children suffered at the hands of the State of Florida. On October the 19th the Miami Herald will release a story in their paper . . .
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September 28, 2007 11:54 AM EDT --
I guess the years have taken its toll on just about all of us. The never-ending, constant worries and hours upon hours of nervous situations that life itself has thrown our way. All the wars, the insults, . . .
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September 03, 2007 08:03 PM EDT --
I was about 12 years old, living in the Florida School for Boys at Marianna, when they called me to the head office. They told me that I would soon visit the ‘White House,' which was a torture . . .
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January 25, 2009 12:45 PM EST --
FLORIDA TIMES UNION
'You find Roger Dean Kiser in a double-wide trailer at the end of the cul de sac near Interstate 95 and Brunswick, Ga.
There, with the dog out of the way and . . .
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February 09, 2009 08:47 PM EST --
This is a letter I received on Saturday night but did not read until today.
Roger
"Dear Mr. Kiser, I've been following your story for several months since seeing the . . .
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September 06, 2007 12:49 PM EDT --
My book "Runaway-Life on the Streets-The lessons learned" has finally been released.
First off, I would like to thank those of my friends who pre-ordered a copy. I really appreciate you doing . . .
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September 07, 2007 06:35 PM EDT --
"Are you sure this is what you want? Being raised in a orphanage has not prepared you for a normal family life. Is this going to make you happy?" asked Mrs. Usher, my foster mother.
"I . . .
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September 20, 2007 01:01 PM EDT --
I do not think I was ever what you would call a criminal. I do not know if convicted of a few felonies when one is young, classifies you as an honest-to-goodness-criminal. To me, a real criminal is someone . . .
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September 20, 2007 01:12 PM EDT --
I was rather surprised when I opened my mail box and found a large Christmas card from someone who I did not recognize. The card was from Tallahassee, Florida but did not have a name or return address . . .
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September 03, 2007 07:49 PM EDT --
"Poison Ivyyyyyyyyyyy. Poison Ivyyyyyyyyyyyy," sang the Coasters from the large loud speaker of Cottage Twelve located at the Florida School for Boy Reformatory in Marianna, Florida.
The Duval . . .
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September 03, 2007 08:08 PM EDT --
"Have him report to Mother Winters' quarters as quickly as possible."
Matron Castile pointed at my seven-year-old rear-end and told me to report to the office, located in the main dining . . .
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October 24, 2008 11:12 AM EDT --
THE JUVENILE GUARD
In most cases, a guard working in a juvenile detention facility does not hold a high paying position. Most likely there will be no family vacations to Paris or France for their family. . . .
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September 30, 2007 02:10 PM EDT --
Over sixty years I have been an Orphan, "Little Retarded Bastard," Orderly, Medic, Nurse, Painter, Finished Plummer, Ambulance Driver, Emergency Medical Technician, Legal Representative, Counselor, . . .
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September 05, 2007 08:41 PM EDT --
"Grab Big Eared Dumbo and bring him over here". yelled the Spring Park School Bully.
I tried to run but there were just to many hands grabbing for me. By the time the four boys wrestled me to . . .
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September 05, 2007 09:08 PM EDT --
I never thought that I would ever get a chance to attend a family reunion and why would I never had a family.
I had been raised in an orphanage in Jacksonville, Florida. Even after I married into my wife's . . .
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