Bobby describes how every night as he was falling asleep he would listen to the whistle of a freight train in the distance, and “wanted to know where that train was going”. So, one night he waited until the guard wasn’t looking and broke out, following the train tracks all the way until he got to Washington DC.

Here, he thought his life might turn around. One of his eight siblings lived in the city, so he slept on their sofa and began to play basketball and enrolled in a new high school. It seemed like things were going well. Until he became friends with a group who were robbing banks, and as Bobby says, “getting away with it.” After he started assisting them in the robberies it was only a matter of time before they got caught, and after a bank manager pulled a silent alarm, Bobby was shot by police as he tried to flee the scene and ended up once again in prison.

Sadly, while he was inside Bobby’s mum passed away, something which hit him especially hard as she always hoped she’d see her son “turn his life around”. From here, Bobby decided to be on his best behaviour and become a better man. He exhibited such good behaviour in prison that he got moved to a lower security, more comfortable prison and was slowly allowed privileges like having his own radio show.

Although he was well liked and his prison record was now sparkling, one guard decided he had it in for Bobby. This guard bullied and falsely accused him, until it came to a point that if there was just one more fake incident on his record, he would be transferred back to higher security prison.

Jennifer Garner is all of us reading this gripping Humans of New York love story