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Going on next door to you. >> after 20 years of incarceration, 17 served at holman, teter has developed an appreciation for simple routines. >> cup of coffee. first thing. cup of coffee and a cigarette. thats it. thats every morning. then, you know, comb your hair, get dressed, go outside. there is no such thing as a 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 th...

Holman, teter has developed an appreciation for simple routines. >> cup of coffee. first thing. cup of coffee and a cigarette. thats it. thats every morning. then, you know, comb your hair, get dressed, go outside. there is no such thing as a 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 he still had ten years left on a 30-year sentence for so...

Going on next door to you. >> after 20 years of incarceration, 17 served at holman, teter has developed an appreciation for simple routines. >> cup of coffee. first thing. cup of coffee and a cigarette. thats it. thats every morning. then, you know, comb your hair, get dressed, go outside. there is no such thing as a 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 th...

And all this has happened while ive been in prison the last 20 years. the hardest part of it is being without my wife. its like shes -- shes everything. shes the bubble i live in. >> im here to visit my husband robert teter. >> ava teter lives just a few miles from holman and visits regularly. >> thank you. >> you ready? >> yes. >> all right. come on. >> you visit every two weeks and you can stay from 8:00 until about 1:20. for a long time it was real stressful, but then you sort of get used to ...

This case robert teter is going to walk out this door free. so you have to look at it from that side. hes going to go free. hes going to eos his sentence in 2014 and hes coming out. and societys going to have to accept that. >> see you later. coming up -- >> im making a birdhouse right now. >> two inmates seek a creative respite. from hell. >> art is my sanity and my salvation. thats what keeps me stable. well, he showed up in a van. [ women ] oh-awww. [ voices in background ] [ female announc...

Falsely accused, falsely convicted. >> ever since his 1984 conviction teter said his charges were trumped up in order to run him out of town. >> i found out a bunch of people here in alabama needed a good contractor so i moved up to alabama. five years later i got a warning to get out of town and stop contracting or were going to stop you. i laughed at them because i was licensed for everything. plumbing, electrical, everything. they stopped me. they pulled the rug out from under my feet, laid f...

Im just going to go in there and hand him the paper and answer his questions. its 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 to repair a recommendation on whether or not the inmate should be paroled. >> come on in, robert. please have a seat. okay. this morning im going to be interviewing robert teter for a parole hearing he has set in august. any time you have an inmate that comes ...

And all this has happened while ive been in prison the last 20 years. the hardest part of it is being without my wife. its like shes -- shes everything. shes the bubble i live in. >> im here to visit my husband robert teter. >> ava teter lives just a few miles from holman and visits regularly. >> thank you. >> you ready? >> yes. >> all right. come on. >> you visit every two weeks and you can stay from 8:00 until about 1:20. for a long time it was real stressful, but then you sort of get used to ...

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 served at holman, teter has developed an appreciation for simple routines. >> cup of coffee. first thing. cup of coffee and a cigarette. thats it. thats every morning. then, you know, comb your hair, get dressed, go outside. there is no such thing as a holiday here. theres no christmas. theres no tree. eve...

Before, so he obviously carried that realism with him, but i think there was a piece of him that thought maybe this could be the time i get set free. well, what are your thoughts, feelings about the whole thing? >> well, the way he was talking, he may give a good report. so things may go my way this time. >> whats your main goal right now, robert? >> getting back on the street. going back to work. let my wife sit back for a while. >> im hoping this time it will go through. because things are goi...