Incarcerated Teens Write Obituaries for "Forgotten" People Buried with a Number, Not a Name

Date:  06-27-2024 Researching documents, the teens were able to identify 630 names

From MSN News: CRANSTON, R.I. — Sometimes, as they played basketball outside at the Rhode Island Training School, the teens would glance through the security fence to the woods and brush that shrouded rows of small stones. “What are they?” A 16-year-old boy incarcerated at the Training School remembered asking one of the staff members. Graves, he was told. The plain, numbered concrete headstones marked the burial sites of 1,049 people who died a century ago. Continue reading >>>