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Maggie Neal takes a photo of her brother Dwayne White and his daughter, Diera, 11, as they drop her off for her first day of school at Zion Central Middle School on Aug. 18, 2021, in Zion. White had spent the past 10 years of a 25-year sentence in prison, charged in a discredited federal sting operation. Today was the first time he had been able to take his daughter to school. When asked how he felt about bringing her to school, he said, "I'm still soaking it in but I feel like I've accomplished a big part of parenthood."
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Maggie Neal takes a photo of her brother Dwayne White and his daughter, Diera, 11, as they drop her off for her first day of school at Zion Central Middle School on Aug. 18, 2021, in Zion. White had spent the past 10 years of a 25-year sentence in prison, charged in a discredited federal sting operation. Today was the first time he had been able to take his daughter to school. When asked how he felt about bringing her to school, he said, “I’m still soaking it in but I feel like I’ve accomplished a big part of parenthood.”

After 12 years in prison for controversial drug stash house conviction, Dwayne White is finally free

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Dwayne White has spent most of his adult life behind bars for agreeing to rob a drug stash house that never existed. Now, he’s a free man.

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