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Juvenile Justice
Law closing boot camps named for teen- (FL, Panama City Boot Camp)
TALLAHASSEE - Martin Lee Anderson, the 14-year-old Panama City boy who died after being manhandled by guards at the Bay County Sheriff's Office Boot Camp, will join an elite group of other Florida children who met a tragic end.
Sex abuse claims in suit refer to boot camp death (Florida)
The News Herald
PANAMA CITY - For the second time in two years, the Department of Juvenile Justice is being sued over the sexual abuse of an underage offender in a state program.
State-sanctioned abuse (Florida)
If parents used on their children the same kind of force regularly administered at boot camps, the state would intervene. So why has it been tolerated?
A Times EditorialPublished April 9, 2006
Guards Familiar With Strikes (Florida)
Restraints and knee strikes frequently used by Bay County boot camp guards.
By MELISSA NELSON
The Associated Press
PANAMA CITY -- The boot camp guards videotaped kneeing and punching a 14-year-old boy who later died had consistently used the same techniques on other youths, documents show.
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