BY DEB KENT | PHOTOGRAPHY BY SHANNON ZAHNLE
A young man spends two and a half years in a brutal Mexican prison, goes on to earn an M.B.A., and winds up teaching at the IU Kelley School of Business.
This is the true story of Bloomington resident Dwight Worker, former Kelley School lecturer, Vietnam protester, alleged environmental outlaw, organic farmer, world traveler, hero, rugged individualist, drug addict, prisoner, fugitive.
Any of these descriptors could justify a magazine story, but I have come to Worker’s isolated house off West Vernal Pike for one story in particular: In 1975, this native of Highland, Indiana, successfully escaped from Mexico’s infamous Lecumberri prison—the only inmate, other than Pancho Villa, ever to do so.
