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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...

Murdered. so i know what it feels like. whats that word? empathy? when you can really feel somebody elses pain. i can honestly say i can really feel their pain. >> inmates must also be free of any gang affiliation. wallace joined the bloods at age 13. and has been a affiliated with the gang ever since. he says its been years since hes been an active member, and his prison record has not shown any obvious gang activity during that time, but he never went through what authorities consider an offic...

Was that. i brought up the word hypocrite. you feel me? asked how he felt about it. i was serious. aiming it directly at him and he knew it. >> he likes to tell me about myself. i really dont care what another person thinks about me. god knows my heart. he knows my intentions. i know where ive come from and where im at now. >> yeah. he start calling me all of this crazy stuff, a few words i didnt know. look it up? im like, damn. you feel me? >> gadlin says he then used the dictionary to find a w...

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...

To see. this is all im going to know. im going to die here. >> but wallace was recently contacted by an organization called human rights watch. about a new law passed by the california state legislature. >> you know, they helped get this bill passed and for juveniles sentenced to life without a possibility of parole and basically saying, like, in the united states, basically its the only civilized country in the world that gives juveniles life without sentences and saying its a crime against hum...

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....

Back, until i get back? came out to 352,955 days. man, im so much -- im a good person. i dont deserve that right there. i dont deserve none of that. not none of that [ bleep ], man. i made [ bleep ] mistakes in decisions and choices i made but they gave me 967 years. hell when baseball players, they make three mistakes, they strike out, they go back to the end of the line. they get to come right back up. another chance. >> gadlin will soon transfer to prison with the knowledge he will never leav...

>> 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...

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. >...