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Halls of Horror

In 1961, outside of Savannah, Georgia, a fifteen-year-old hitchhiker named Jerry Cooper got into the wrong Chevy convertible. The driver had stolen the car, and Cooper—fully unaware—was unlucky enough to be riding shotgun when the police tracked it down. Charged with auto theft, Cooper was sent to a reform facility called the Florida School for Boys, later christened the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys. Not long after

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