For almost a century, the State of Tennessee sent “wayward colored boys” and later, white boys as well, to a “reform” school, Taft, in a remote area of Appalachia. Investigation of Taft by a death penalty defense investigator who grew up in the region led her to produce TAFT as her first documentary. It exposes, in their own words, the
torture, trauma, and lasting damage to those boys, now middle aged men, sent to Taft. Though Taft finally closed, we are challenged to question if things are really that much different today