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>> talking about the ways used. dread head. >> his dictionary came for another reason. >> responsibility state of being reliable. trustworthiness, reliability. trustingness, depend act, loyalty, faithfulness. >> now wallace hopes the same words will have meaning for gadlin as he awaits his transfer to prison. >> i'm getting the counseling and teaching firsthand. feeling like i don't have to do it myself. i'm getting help, more support. so it's kind of cool. >> if you don't learn anything else from me, learn from my mistakes. that's my thing. even if i never get out, if he learned from my mista...

>> i would hope that he learned to restrain hisself a little more, because in prison it's a little worse. restriction is part of life. learn how to restrict your emotions and restrain them, because if you don't, you know, that's why i'm in prison. that's why people get locked up, because they didn't restrain or restrict themselves. >> while they initially got along, both men acknowledged they liked to debate, and apparently the debates began to wear on gadlin. >> he don't have no understanding at all. it's his way or nothing. but like, i would just reflect, like, damn, ain't you talking your -...

Clean it up every time. >> gregory gadlin admits he takes part in what inmates call toilet talk, but says he never floods his cell. either way, all of that seems trivial now that he's been sentenced to 967 years to life for a spree of 16 robberies and prior felonies convictions under california's three strikes law. >> i just -- i just don't feel it's fair. how the hell can one live out that long being incarcerated? how does that seem fair? does that even sound fair? >> as gadlin awaits his transfer to prison he's just gone through another transition. he was placed into a new cell with a new ce...

>> 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 debriefing is not a requirement of the law, the i...

T. was like okay. life without possibility of parole. never going to get out. what's the point? what's the point of trying to do good for? it's over with? >> wallace was sentenced to life without parole for murder. he wasn't the trigger man but at age 17 was involved in a robbery in which a victim was shot to death. he says with nothing to lose, his early years in prison are marked by gang activity and violence. one inmate even died after getting into a fight with him. the death was ruled to be unintentional and in self-defense. so wallace was not charged. but during his tenth year in prison, ...