Calvin Zastrow thought he was in trouble when a prison guard banged on his cell door late Thursday night, interrupting his sleep. Zastrow, who was in prison over a peaceful pro-life protest, found out moments later that he was going free thanks to a pardon issued by President Donald Trump.
While Trump announced Thursday afternoon that he was pardoning 23 pro-life protesters who had been targeted by the Biden administration, Zastrow did not immediately find out because he had been stuck in his prison cell for six days due to a prison lockdown. He only heard the news when he was woken up by prison guards at 10:00 p.m. By 11:30 he had been processed out of Federal Correctional Institute, Thomson in Illinois, where he had spent the last three months.
“They came and banged on my door loud and woke me up and that’s never a good sign when a guard comes and bangs on your door,” he…
