The Boys of the Dark: A Story of Betrayal and Redemption in the Deep South (2010) by Robin Gaby Fisher in collaboration Michael O’McCarthy & Robert W. Straley tells the harrowing story of the Florida School for Boys.

In 2008, activist Michael O’McCarthy received an email from Robert Straley asking for his help in exposing the horrors of “the White House”, a building at the Florida School for Boys where “boys were rapped, flogged and perhaps even murdered”.

By the end of that year, the men now calling themselves “the White House Boys”, held a press conference demanding a formal investigation “of the unnamed graves at the Florida School for Boys”.

The then Governor of Florida, Charlie Crist, agreed.