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Have a chance to get out. every single juvenile offender should have a chance for rehabilitation, but its nothing thats guaranteed. and even if they reduce your sentence to 25 to life, its still not a guarantee youre ever going to get out, but theres a chance. >> my claim. >> ah -- >> wallace acknowledges his role in the crime that occurred at age 17. he was the only juvenile among five co-defendants all of whom were convicted and sentenced to prison as well. >> i was charged with murder/robbery...

Friendship for that person, and it takes somebody to believe. even as my child, i never had a person to believe in. >> youre here to see? >> here to visit wallace in 215. >> ive known her since we was kid. i met her when i was like, i think 14. >> years later i ran into a mutual friend of ours and so i asked, have you seen jiles? like, whoa. you didnt hear what happened? no. what. i got this big, huge, fabricated exaggerated story how he killed somebody and was on death row and i was just very s...

I was 17. i dont feel i really experienced very much. most of my experience basically is prison. >> and that has helped wallace at least feel at home here. many of his friends from prison are currently in the jail as well. either for appeals or while awaiting trial on new charges. >> this over here, this is mr. palmer. this brother right here he did 16 years, man. got out. now hes back. this guy right here, witnessed the change, changes that ive made. >> see the transformation, its -- whew. brea...

And because of drugs and now were separated. my plan, when i get out, to get everything back. and im starting it here. >> how you starting it in here? >> be productive all the time. >> jiles wallace looks forward to regaining all he has lost after spending the past 21 years in jail and prison. he awaits a court hearing that could reverse his life without parole 70sens for a murder/robbery he was involved in at 17. like many proceedings in the criminal justice system, the process has been slow, a...

Prison to begin his 964 year to life sentence under californias three strike law, while wallace continues to wait through delay after delay for what he hopes will about release under a different california law. one that gives sentence to life without patrol to juveniles the chance to be resentenced. >> i mean, i always feel like i should have got a chance. now, thats my thing. i dont expect the doors to just open up. but my thing is, you know, ive done a lot of things that im not proud of doing....

>> flush, flush, flush, flush, all over. drains down on the floor, on the tables, everything. >> it takes 30 seconds to cause it and literally six hours to clean it up every time. >> gregory gadlin admits he takes part in what inmates call toilet talk, but says he never floods his cell. either way, all of that seems trivial now that hes been sentenced to 967 years to life for a spree of 16 robberies and prior felonies convictions under californias three strikes law. >> i just -- i just dont feel...

Because we aint not nothing to talk abs you made a decision. aint got nothing to talk about that. >> when i hear dreads, this is what i go to, just because this is me and i dont -- its just short for dreadlock. thats all it means. >> no its not short from dreadlock. when did the word dread derive from. >> talking about the ways used. dread head. >> his dictionary came for another reason. >> responsibility state of being reliable. trustworthiness, reliability. trustingness, depend act, loyalty, f...

He says with nothing to lose, his early years in prison are marked by gang activity and violence. one inmate even died after getting into a fight with him. the death was ruled to be unintentional and in self-defense. so wallace was not charged. but during his tenth year in prison, he got into another fight and was ready to take things further. >> from this altercation i basically went back made an inmate a weapon and on my way out to the yard to go use it and thank god i did get caught, because ...

Street. looked me up. got my address and wrote me just to see how i was doing. she needed somebody to talk to. i needed somebody to talk to and she came visit me and ever since then, weve been together. >> six years late. wallace and jennifer palmer were married. during a ceremony behind the walls of the mex mum security prison in which he was housed. >> even though i knew her on the street i never knew her. and even though she knew me on the street she never knew me and its a spiritual thing. >...

Its even harder for me to imagine you being where youre at, and not having anyone to turn to. >> hi, baby. >> good morning, sunshine. >> how are you? >> good. what about yourself? >> im good. >> i know that people arent perfect, with that being said i knew he was young when it happened and he was very honest with me about getting in fights while he was in there and causing problems initially. you know, as a teen, and even into his early 20s. hes like, this is prison. im not going to try to make ...