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I married my wife and she brought me over here. and because of drugs and now we're separated. my plan, when i get out, to get everything back. and i'm 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, and getting slower. >> i was supposed to go to cour...

Feel like i really lived. i was 17. i don't 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 he's back. this guy right here, witnessed the change, changes that i've made. >> see the transformation, it's -- whew. breathtaking. >> stop it. [ laughter ] >> wallace will soon need to prove ...

Followed my case 2 1/2 years. by the time i was sentenced i was 20, and a couple weeks after that, i was in prison. i kind of thought maybe i would get 25 to life. i thought i would have a chance to get out eventually. one day. but when she says, gave me the life without a possibility of parole sentence, you know, it was like, it's over with. it's a death sentence. i'm dead. what that did to me, i can't even put into words. it took away any hope that i had. i don't know. just a part of me felt like, you just threw me away. >> wallace spent the past 17 years in some of california the most notor...

Sentencing hearing, maybe. hopefully. it's been very stressful, because i've been here almost eight months already. >> even if wallace succeeds in being resentenced, it's still not a guarantee he will ever go home. >> best case scenario, i get resentenced to at least, you know, 25 to life, and go back to prison. i don't know how many more years i would have to do on that sentence. i got over 20 years in. so maybe four more years? be out for parole. worst case, resentence me to life without again and i'd have to come back next year and go through the whole process all over again. >> wallace say...

At, and not having anyone to turn to. >> hi, baby. >> good morning, sunshine. >> how are you? >> good. what about yourself? >> i'm good. >> i know that people aren't 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. he's like, this is prison. i'm not going to try to make it seem like i'm a saint, but i'm also not a monster. >> you look beautiful this morning. >> thank you. >> after time went on and we established that we...