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But few people know the history — and horror — of the real-life reform school both the book and film are based on: the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys.
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Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 15 Dec. 2024
Elwood experiences some of the usual rigors of prison and reform school: the bullying, the joshing around, the discipline, the abuse.
—K. Austin Collins, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2024
Words fail to really capture the unique, harrowing ride that is seeing the horrors of the 1960s Florida reform school the two young protagonists are trapped in, quite literally through their eyes.
—Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 2 Dec. 2024
Certainly, there could have been a more straightforward adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s acclaimed novel about the friendship between two Black boys at a brutal Florida reform school in the early 1960s.
—Glenn Whipp, Twin Cities, 24 Nov. 2024
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Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 15 Dec. 2024
Elwood experiences some of the usual rigors of prison and reform school: the bullying, the joshing around, the discipline, the abuse.
—K. Austin Collins, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2024
Words fail to really capture the unique, harrowing ride that is seeing the horrors of the 1960s Florida reform school the two young protagonists are trapped in, quite literally through their eyes.
—Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 2 Dec. 2024
Certainly, there could have been a more straightforward adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s acclaimed novel about the friendship between two Black boys at a brutal Florida reform school in the early 1960s.
—Glenn Whipp, Twin Cities, 24 Nov. 2024
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The GoFundMe raised more than $67,000 over its first two days, including large donations from the Idaho Medical Academy, emergency training school Idaho CPR Plus, and Meridian, Middleton, Star and Kuna firefighter unions.Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 7 Jan. 2025
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Today, women have successfully passed almost all military training schools, subject to the same physical standards as their male counterparts.Matt Robison, Newsweek, 20 Nov. 2024
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On the afternoon of September 17, 1963, fifty-seven Mexican guest workers living at a labor camp in Salinas, California, finished up a 10-hour day harvesting vegetables and boarded a flatbed produce truck.Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 30 Nov. 2024
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Repression and surveillance are now everywhere, although few expect a return to the labor camps and mass executions of the 1950s and 1960s.Odd Arne Westad, Foreign Affairs, 13 June 2023
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The Closure The Bureau of Prisons announced Thursday plans to close the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, California, and deactivate minimum-security prison camps in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Colorado, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Florida.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
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In addition to closing FCI Dublin, the Bureau of Prisons is shuttering its minimum-security prison camps in Pensacola, Fla.; Duluth, Minn.; and Morgantown, W.Va.Michael R. Sisak and Michael Balsamo, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2024
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It was described in the script as representing the barracks of the concentration camps where Tóth and his wife Erzsébet (Felicity Jones) were imprisoned.Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 8 Jan. 2025
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The ambiguities that result are fascinating and provocative, though Corbet never quite thinks them through: If László is creating, in effect, architectural poetry after Auschwitz, does this poetry redeem the cruelty and brutality of the concentration camps or reproduce it?Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2025
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On the cusp of college, he’s instead sentenced to time at a notorious reformatory.Patrick Hipes, Deadline, 2 Jan. 2025
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Ross’ novel approach tells Whitehead’s tale, based on true events, about two young Black men stuck in a wretched juvenile Florida reformatory school, the site of relentless and sometimes fatal abuse.Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 31 Dec. 2024
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