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>> i got to the point where i don't trust people. i don't trust the law. i don't trust anybody. >> i'll probably never live to get out of here. i don't know. i'm just going to go in there and hand them the paper and answer his questions and just 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 in order to prepare a recommendation on whether or not the inmate should be paroled. >> come on in, robert. please have a seat. okay. this morning i'm going to be interviewing robert tedder for a ...

And that's just something that you'll have to just stay within those guidelines just a little more tighter than someone else. now, according to your record, i didn't see anything in there where you had been on probation or parole before, is that correct? i see you were in the air force. >> yeah. you wasn't a parole officer here the last time, were you? >> no, i don't think i was the officer that interviewed you. >> every time they've come here before, it was what's your home plan and job plan? and i give them that and that was it. no questions. >> i do mine a little bit differently. >> that's ...

It. all right. good luck to you. >> i appreciate it. >> the parole hearing for robert was interesting in that robert believed every time he might have a chance. he felt very hopeful. he had been turned down many times before, so he obviously carried that realism with him. but i think that there was a piece of him that thought maybe this could be the time i get set free. >> so what are your thoughts and 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. >> what's your main hope? >> getting back on the street. going back...

State of alabama, i don't know. >> i got to the point where i don't trust people. i don't trust the law. i don't trust anybody. >> i'll probably never live to get out of here. i don't know. i'm just going to go in there and hand him the paper and answer his questions, and just 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 pre-interview in order to prepare a recommendation on whether or not the inmate should be paroled. >> come on in, robert. just have a seat. this morning, i'm going to be interv...

Alabama's correctional facility, robert's home would be about 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 on the street, only no walls, no doors, no privacy. so you just kind of ignore what's going on next door to you. >> after 20 years of incarceration, 17 of them served as holmen, he has developed an appreciation of the little things. >> a cup of coffee. cup of coffee and a cigarette, that's every morning. >> at the time of our shoot, he still had ten years left on the conviction of sodomy, public ex...