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To 2002. and then again five years to 200 2007. >> [ inaudible ] >> after what i know about the 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 kind of like playing florida lottery. you just pick a number and wait. >> prior to parole hearings, the board sends a representative to c...

Licensed for everything, plumbing, electrical and everything. and they stopped me. they pulled the rug out from under my feet. put some fake charges on me and took me to court. ive been here since 1990. and its a long time. now i got three grandkids out there. and im a great grandfather, i was told. and all this has happened while ive been in prison the last 20 years. but the hardest part of its being without my wife. its like shes -- shes everything. shes the bubble i live in. >> im here to vis...

Its often said that prisons are like cities behind walls. if that metaphor were applied to alabamas holeman correctional facility, robert tatters home would be 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 wall, 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 develo...

In the past times. ive done got everything prepared to where we can have a little time together and everything whenever he does get out. because weve 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, someday, in this case robert tedder is goin...

Holiday here. theres no christmas. theres no tree. every day is the same. when you get up its the same people, the same thing, the same rat race. and theres no relaxation. >> at the time of our shoot, tedder still had ten years left on a 30-year sentence for some very serious convictions. they include sodomy, public exposure, and enticement of a child. >> robert was one of those inmates who was adamant that he was falsely accused, falsely convicted. >> ever since his 1984 conviction, tedder has ...

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