Inside Alabama’s Donaldson Prison with evangelist, entrepreneur, motivational speaker and former inmate at another facility, Eric Buchannon — via BirminghamTimes:
Buchannon has been out of prison for five years and “it feels like a lifetime,” he said.
Buchannon says the struggles of life and not really looking at the alternatives but taking risk “led me to a life of ongoing criminal activity.” Going to prison was one of the best experiences for him because “I was ‘discipled’ by an older guy by the name of Anthony Samuels from 1998 to 2000. His influence on my life is pretty much the influenced I have on my son’s lives.”
After being released from prison, Buchannon attended every sports and academic events with his children. Eventually he stopped going to some street guys because he knew he could make money on his own and that “resulted me going back to prison,” Buchannon said. “It was very embarrassing. Here I am a man of God, a man that’s been preaching in the pulpit, bringing people through storms and now I’m back.”
Buchannon served his time at Staton Correctional Facility in Elmore County. “I was quiet. I felt like I didn’t have a voice. The inmates were happy to see me back. I didn’t feel like I should have been embraced like that.” He stayed at St.Clair County for three years and six months after he completed the Therapeutic Community Program and transferred to Draper Correctional Facility in Elmore County, Alabama.
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