Ex-inmate gets ticket to new life (The State)

4 October 2008, 9:19 pm

LITTLE RIVER — Roger Dale Smith pumped his fist, bidding farewell to inmates across the yard as he boarded a bus Wednesday morning at Walden Correctional Institution in Columbia. Smith, who served five years for forgery, left at 6:25 a.m. with no money and little more than the clothes on his back. His biggest asset: a voucher for a bus ticket to Myrtle Beach. “I didn’t think I was gonna make ...... read more

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