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To make up for. >> but the wait would continue. tedder was once again denied parole. he will most likely not leave holmen until his 30-year sentence is complete. >> i have two daughters and i look at it from that perspective. do i want these people around my family? no. but there again, someday, in this case robert tedder is going to walk out this door free. so you have to look at it from that side. hes going to go free. it may not be in parole, but hes going to eos his sentence in 2014 and hes ...

Prepared to where we can have a little time together and everything whenever he does get out because we got a lot of time to make up for. >> but the wait would continue. tedder was once again denied parole. he will most likely not leave holman until his 30-year sentence is complete. >> i have two daughters, and i look at it from that perspective. do i want these people around my family? no. but there again, some day, in this case robert tedder is going to walk out this door free. so you have to ...

The guidelines are a little narrower because of the case, and thats just something that youll have to just stay within those guidelines just a little more tighter than someone else. now, according to your record i saw -- didnt see anything in there where you had been on probation for parole before, is that correct? >> no. >> i see you were in the air force. >> yes. >> you wasnt the parole officer here the last time, were you? >> no, i dont think i was the officer that interviewed you. >> every t...

State of alabama, i dont know. >> i got to the point where i dont trust people. i dont trust the law. i dont trust anybody. >> ill probably never live to get out of here. i dont know. im just going to go in there and hand them the paper and answer his questions and just kind of like playing florida lottery, you just pick a number and wait. >> prior to parole hearings the board sends a representative to conduct a preinterview in order to prepare a recommendation on whether or not the inmate shoul...

>> and, you know, i hope it works the way you want it. >> okay. >> all right. good luck to you. >> the parole hearing for robert was interesting in that, robert believed every time he might have a chance. he felt very hopeful. hed been turned down many times before, so he obviously carried that realism with him. but i think that there was a piece of him that thought maybe this could be the time i get set free. so what are your thoughts, feelings about the whole thing? >> well, the way he was tal...

Alabamas holman correctional facility inmate robert tedder home would be about six feet long by three feet wide. >> this is home. bed to bed right here. each one of these beds is like having a house in a subdivision out there on the street. only no walls, no doors, no privacy. so you just kind of ignore whats going on next door to you >> after 20 years of incarceration, 17 of them served at holman, tedder has developed an appreciation for simple routines. >> cup of coffee. first thing. cup of co...

♪ >> tedder always includes one other element on his guitars. its for his muse. >> everything i do i dedicate to my wife. the blue heart is because we have been separated for 23 years now. shes still with me. shes sticking with me right through this. i always put a blue heart on every letter i mail to her, every card i send her. i put a blue heart on the case and on the guitar. its just our symbol, being separated so long. ♪ >> while music helps him cope with life at holman, we met another i...

>> you know you need to do a segment on the talent inside these walls. because there are a lot of talented guys. >> "lockup" producers only had to walk to the other side of keith masons dorm at the holman correctional facility in alabama to learn how right he was. >> i play blues, country, no rock n roll. i dont mess with the hard rock stuff. >> while robert tedder passes time playing music, thats not what amazed our crew. its that he builds his own guitars out of one of the few recreational res...

Long by three feet wide. >> this is home. bed to bed right here. each one of these beds is like having a house in a subdivision out there on the street. only no walls, no doors, no privacy. so you just kind of ignore whats going on next door to you -- >> after 20 years of incarceration, 17 of them served at holman, tedder has developed an appreciation for simple routines. >> cup of coffee. first thing. cup of coffee and a cigarette. thats it. thats every morning. >> at the time of our shoot, ted...

>> im here to visit my husband, robert tedder. >> ava tedder lives just a few miles from holman. and visits regularly. >> all right, thank you. >> you ready? >> yes. >> all right. come on. >> usually you visit every two weeks, and you can stay from 8:00 until 1:20. for a long time, it was real stressful. but then you sort of get used to it. it sort of gets like a daily routine and everything. just like everyday life. >> you okay? >> yeah. >> my wife comes over to visit, i feel like im 25 again. ...