“It’s Like Being in a Temporary Tomb”
One Inmate’s Experience of Prison and Jail
By: Bob Horning
On March 20, Lawrence Edward Buckner marked his twenty-seventh birthday with some of his friends. It wasn’t exactly a celebration, though, because they were all locked up at the county jail. It was Larry’s fifth straight birthday behind bars.
Larry has been in and out of jail since 1997 and is weary of living this way. "I’m tired of letting God down. I know it tears his heart...
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