Every day for 21 years, Billy Ray Wheelock woke up behind bars while the world outside moved on without him.
So when the 51-year-old was granted clemency by President Obama, he decided to make up for what he had missed.
After his release from a halfway house in Denver, Colorado, he refused to be ‘free and unhappy’, so he got married, had a Starbucks, got his hair cut and went for his first swim in nearly two decades.
Now he is on the ‘other side of the wall’ he is planning on starting a consulting service to help prisoners stay out of trouble and help them apply for clemency.