Journalist Josie Duffy Rice says the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children, also known as Mount Meigs, was supposed to be a progressive place for young boys to go for reform — but things changed when the State of Alabama took it over.
“It traumatized every person that went through those doors,” said Duffy Rice.
On Thursday’s edition of “Closer Look,” Duffy Rice explained that the school’s troubled history is now the focus of her new investigative podcast “Unreformed: The Story of the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children.”
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