Father's Day cards mean a lot to inmates

George Barksdale wants nothing more than to go home and hug his kids.

He can't do that, though, probably until September. He's in jail.

"It ain't no fun," he said last week, while sitting in the visiting room at the Ordnance Road Correctional Center in Glen Burnie.

But it's especially tough being away from your children, he said.

Today - Father's Day - might actually be a little brighter, though.

Barksdale will get to look at the unique Father's Day card his family sent to him.

"I'll probably go and read it and it'll be a little bit like hugging (my kids)," he said.

He got the card courtesy of a...