(Missourinet) Jeff Mizanskey will be released from prison in approximately two weeks, after serving more than two decades in prison for marijuana charges. He said getting paroled has revitalized his faith in human kind.

“From my years of sitting here for marijuana was a sense of death. It’s life without but that’s basically a death sentence in prison,” Mizanskey said. “Seeing these guys raping kids, and doing murders and stuff getting out on parole the only thing I could thing of is what is this world come to.”

Governor Nixon commuted Mizanskey’s sentence in May. His parole hearing was last Thursday and Mizanskey expected the parole board to take four to six weeks before making a decision on his fate.

Mizanskey will be a free man in 10-25 days. Mizanskey said doing drugs again isn’t worth going back to prison.

“A promise I made my mother before she passed away was that I would never break the law intentionally again,” he said. “To me I take that to heart and that’s just the way it’ll be.”

The 62-year-old Sedalia man said he looks forward to spending time with family.

“There’s a lot of my family I’ve never even met. Like my grand children, and my nephews and my nieces I’ve never even seen,” Mizanskey said. “Some of them I’ve never even talked to. So it’s going to take some time to get acquainted with everybody but it’s going to be a joyous occasion.”

Mizanskey was the only person serving a life sentence in Missouri for marijuana charges.