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To 2002. and then again five years to 200 2007. >> [ inaudible ] >> after what i know about the 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 them the paper and answer his questions. and 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 shou...

Licensed for everything, plumbing, electrical and everything. and they stopped me. they pulled the rug out from under my feet. put some fake charges on me and took me to court. i've been here since 1990. and it's a long time. now i got three grandkids out there. and i'm a great grandfather, i was told. and all this has happened while i've been in prison the last 20 years. but the hardest part of it's being without my wife. it's like she's -- she's everything. she's the bubble i live in. >> i'm here to visit my husband, robert tedder. >> ava tedder lives just a few miles from holman and visits ...

It's often said that prisons are like cities behind walls. if that metaphor were applied to alabama's holeman correctional facility, robert tatter's home would be 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 out there on the street, only no wall, 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 at holman, tedder has developed an appreciation for simple routines. >> cup of coffee first thing. cup of coffee and a cigar...

In the past times. i've done got everything prepared to where we can have a little time together and everything whenever he does get out. because we've got a lot of time to make up for. >> but the wait would continue. tedder was once again denied parole. he will most likely not leave holman until his 30-year sentence is complete. >> i have two daughters. and i look at it from that perspective. do i want these people around my family? no. but there again, someday, in this case robert tedder is going to walk out this door free. so you have to look at it from that side. he's going to go free. it ...

Holiday here. there's no christmas. there's no tree. every day is the same. when you get up it's the same people, the same thing, the same rat race. and there's no relaxation. >> at the time of our shoot, tedder still had ten years left on a 30-year sentence for some very serious convictions. they include sodomy, public exposure, and enticement of a child. >> robert was one of those inmates who was adamant that he was falsely accused, falsely convicted. >> ever since his 1984 conviction, tedder has said his charges were trumped up in order to run him out of town. >> i found out a bunch of peop...