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The City of the Rails
In 1968, five black girls dressed in oversized military fatigues were picked up by the police in Montgomery, Alabama. The girls had run away from a reform school called the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children and they were determined to tell someone about the abuse they'd suffered there. Josie Duffy Rice investigates how this reform school went from being a safe haven for black kids to a nightmare on Unreformed. Come with me to find out what waits for us in the City of the Rails.
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