Lawrence Archer - Shackled for Nothing, Released without Relief

Published: Sept. 19, 2020, 7:04 p.m.

A law-abiding and respected husband and business owner who had not been in legal trouble since he was eighteen made a simple, momentary mistake he did not know was against any law and wound up having his life ripped out from under him and sentenced to prison for years. Now released and dropped into a pandemic-shuttered world with only the bare essentials and little-to-no government support, we talk about his sobering and harrowing experience with a ruthless and merciless "justice system" engineered for recidivism.