Jack Lawrence

So then basically she left.

I spent the night in a jail, in a drunk tank.

And then the next day they took me to the first Bulgarian prison I was in.

So they seized my passport.

Then also when I got to the prison, the guards, they nicknamed me, they gave me a nickname right away.

And it was the American Taliban.

you know and they would ask me what i did and i told them i explained my says well my ex-wife i have custody my son and she's lying they're like there's no way the americans they're not going to send one of their own to this prison even if the americans arrested you go to the other prison not this one i'm like oh great

And so it took me several days, but I realized that the American embassy had been telling the Bulgarian government just all kinds of nonsense about me like they were in the newspapers too.

So the Bulgarian government, of course, they had been primed to think that they had caught like 007 or something.

I don't know what they thought they caught, but they thought they had this big fish.

Well, the prison I was in was initiated with a pre-trial prison.

So we had even less rights than the normal prison.

So there was no mixing at all.

We were locked in our room 23 hours a day.

It was a room designed for two prisoners, but there were four in the room.

There was no heat.

Nobody spoke English in the prison.

Even one of the other cellmates spoke a little bit of English, but not a whole lot.

None of the guards spoke English.

We were locked in 24 hours a day, and the only time we were allowed out was to go on the roof.