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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 says during one of his lowest ...

One or the other. so they kept me in the hole for five, six months. probably about a month later, i just hit rock bottom. i just woke up, wondering, how did i get so far gone? i got on my hands and knees and i prayed for the first time ever. so the next day, i got a letter from an acquaintance on the 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, we've been together. >> six years late. wallace and jennifer palmer were married. during a ceremony behind the wall...

It was after that fight that he ended his gang participation. but wallace had been involved in one other fight that could also affect his hearing. even though it was well outside the five-year window. that's because it ended in a fatality. >> 10 months within being in prison i got in a fight with an older inmate and it started out just a fight, but i don't know. i guess i -- his head -- i hit him. i don't know. he just died. >> though wallace received sanctions within the prison for fighting, he was never criminally charged for the man's death. >> i would assume that the d.a. deemed it was sel...

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 that transformation to a judge. thanks to a new california...

That -- i really wasn't with it anymore. >> but deputy gaiman, one of the jail's gang investigators, says debriefing is important. >> he can say that, you know, he's out of the gang and doesn't participate in gang-related activities anymore, but it's hard to prove that when you're still living with other validated gang members. if he's truly out of the gang and wants to step away from the violence and the criminal activity, the only way you can show somebody that you're doing that is by taking the steps to remove yourself as far as possible as you can from other gang members. >> while debriefi...