Hey everyone, this is Sarah Marshall. I just wanted to share with you that our

friend Josie Duffy Rice has a new show out premiering this week on Wednesday

January 18 called Unreformed. I am so thrilled to get to help direct you to it. I

think it's really important. It's wonderful. It's brilliant just like everything

Josie does and go check it out. In 1968, five black girls dressed in

oversized military fatigues were picked up by the police in Montgomery, Alabama.

I was tired and scared and just didn't want to take it anymore. The girls had

run away from a reform school called the Alabama Industrial School for Negro

Children, a place known as Mount Mechs and they were determined to tell

someone about the abuse they'd suffered there.

Picture the worst environment for children that you possibly can. I believe Mount

Mechs was patterned after slavery. It was a penal colony for children, that's exactly what it was.

I didn't understand why I had to go through what I was going through it for what.

He tells us there is no escape than that.

Not one of the most violent persons that you would ever have had and those

characters were killed in the image of Mount Mechs reformed her.

Mount Mechs was founded by the daughter of a slave as a safe haven for black

children, but by the 1960s it had turned into a nightmare. I'm writer and reporter

Josie Defi Rice and for the past year I've been investigating what was

happening at Mount Mechs in the 1960s at the height of the Civil Rights Movement

in the deep south.

And I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever.

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