click to enlarge Ray Gray walks out of prison a free man after 48 years behind bars. “It’s one of the happiest days of my life,” Gray said. “I feel blessed and grateful for the people who made this happen — people of all races. Justice is often not only blind, but deaf, and you have to continue to touch it. People touched it and kept touching it, and now we’re here. … This time the system worked.” Ray and Barbara, who were married in a Saugatuck prison in 1985, shared a tearful embrace with their family Tuesday afternoon in the shadow of the penitentiary.