'We Were All In There Together': Strangers Share Compassion In The Flood Of '93
During the Great Flood of 1993, the mutual efforts of a then-prisoner and a beauty shop owner to protect a tiny Illinois town briefly brought them together. After 25 years, the two reconnect.
In 1993, Greg Yance was serving a sentence at a prison boot camp program in Greene County, Ill., for a drug conviction. Yance says his life was changed that year â thanks to an experience he had outside of Greene County lines.
Yance, then 23, had been sent with a group of inmates about 130 miles away, to Niota, Ill., in
