Article: Scruggs not bitter: After 8 years of false imprisonment

Shonda McClain
Indianapolis Recorder
01-08-1994
Scruggs not bitter: After 8 years of false imprisonment.

What do you tell a man who has just spent the last eight years of his life in prison for a crime he did not commit -- who's only hope lay within the very justice system that condemned him to a hell he never imagined?

This is a very difficult questions to answer if you have not walked in the shoes of Dwayne Scruggs, 40, who is trying to rebuild his life after his victimization at the hands of the Indiana judicial system.

Scruggs' story is a familiar litany being played out across America -- you can hear it in the angry lyrics of rap music protesting the injustice incurred by ...

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