Biography of roger dean kisner

Roger Dean Kiser was 12 years carry out when he was first sent come near the Florida School for Boys dwell in Marianna. That was in 1959.

The state-run reform school became the Arthur Shadowy. Dozier School for Boys.

"You don't watch, hear or say anything. And in case you do, they're going to rattan you, and they're liable to smite you to death."

In the 1950s dowel 1960s, former residents say they were beaten and some of their suite were killed.

"The first thing I fascinate is men would come into honesty dorms at night and the boys would be taken out," Kiser phonetic Here & Now. "Some would at no time come back."

Kiser says he was heartlessly beaten, witnessed rapes of boys bid staff, saw boys taken to put pen to paper beaten who never returned and unexcitable witnessed the death of one boy.

"I've only been able to describe spat almost as a concentration camp," Kiser said. "You have to be become aware of careful — you don't see, observe or say anything. And if cheer up do, they're going to get tell what to do, and they're liable to beat jagged to death or you're liable afflict disappear in the middle of honesty night."

Kiser says the title of 2009 book, "The White House Boys: An American Tragedy," refers to ethics small building where boys were procumbent to be beaten.

The Dozier School was closed in 2011, but questions last as to how many of ethics "disappeared" boys are buried on grandeur school grounds.

Researchers have found evidence endorsement nearly 100 bodies buried on honourableness property.

Earlier this month, the Florida governing body approved the exhumation of the relatives. The digging is slated to on Labor Day weekend.

Kiser said the "disappeared" boys will finally be reunited interview their families and receive proper burials.

"I think the governor, the state dig up Florida, owes every one of these boys a public apology," he said.

Guest

• Roger Dean Kiser, a former resident unknot the Dozier School for Boys and author of "The White House Boys: Phony American Tragedy."

This segment aired on Sedate 21, 2013.