Calvin Buari parked the black Volkswagen Jetta outside the maximum-security prison he had called home for years.Video above: ‘Set for life’; Wrongfully convicted man shares plans for $15M settlementHe gazed up at the hulking concrete wall of the Green Haven Correctional Facility and inhaled deeply. Only weeks before, he’d been on the other side of those walls.But on this June 2017 visit, he wasn’t a prisoner. He was a budding entrepreneur, taking an elderly woman to visit her grandson behind bars.The previous month, Buari had walked out of the prison in Stormville, New York, a free man after years of fighting to vacate a wrongful conviction for a double homicide. He launched Ryderz Van Service — a company he describes as the “Uber for prison visits”— as soon as he got his driver’s license.On that surreal day, his first trip back to the prison since his release, he mingled with …
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