you talking about the way that s used. dread head. his dictionary came for came in handy for another reason. responsibility. state of being reliable. trustworthiness, reliability. trustingness, depend act, dependability, 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 mistakes then it wasn t all for no reason. it s not worthless. coming up i was supposed to go to court about a week ago, and my lawyer called my wife and notified her it was going to get pushed back. jiles wallace gets caught up
get to work right away. my family, my immediate family, my extended family all will embrace him. for the most part, i think the initial adjustment is going to be more the technology side of things. that s it. internet, cell phones. starbucks. i can teach you about walmart. i can teach you about starbucks really quickly. in a matter of days you ll have it down. all right. i love you. i love you, too. thanks for coming to see me. i don t want to say good-bye. you don t have a choice. all right, baby. give me some sugar. all right. i ll talk to you later. all right. okay. bye. coming up gadlin pressed the emergency button inside of his cell and when they went to handcuff him and pull him out he said, you need to get me out of here before i kill my cellie. a blowup between gregory and jiles. what were you afraid you were
situation that brought it about that morning, yesterday morning, was that. i brought up the word hypocrite. you feel me? asked how he felt about it. i was serious. aiming it directly at him and he knew it. he likes to tell me about myself. i really don t care what another person thinks about me. god knows my heart. he knows my intentions. i know where i ve come from and where i m at now. yeah. he start calling me all of this crazy stuff, a few words i didn t know. look it up? i m like, damn. you feel me? gadlin says he then used the dictionary to find a word to express his opinion of wallace. i looked up a couple words. i was like unaware. and i read to him, out the dictionary. what i read to him, the source part of it. uninformed, oblivious, ignorant. that s where he, i think he lost it. i seen his facial expression. not cognizant. unmindful. unknowing. headless. negligent, careless. insensible, forgettable. unconcerned.
gadlin knew that his third strike meant a minimum of 50 years to life. which would make him eligible for parole at age 56. instead a judge handed down a sentence of 967 years to life. i had a because of that, went on a binge. just eating everything that i had stored, everything. everything that i had, just made it. ate much as i could and threw the rest away and went to sleep. while gadlin turned to food for comfort he took out frustration, simulating eating a homemade meal on the outside. ripped all my pictures down, the food. the closest thing i could hurt, other than myself. i wouldn t try to hurt nobody else or myself or nothing like that, so i just took it out on them pictures.
reporter: gadlin says the grocery ads on his wall represents hope that he might go home one day. this right here, this was my favorite meal my mom used to cook for me when i was younger. now the fish sticks with the broccoli, that reminds me of my kids. they like fish sticks and chicken sticks. the fajitas, my wife loves chicken and mexican food. constant reminder, like, damn, that s my wife. that s my mom. that s my kids. reporter: the specter of the three strikes law looms over gregory gadlin, a newer law might prove to be a salvation for giles wallace. convicted of murder and robbery, he was booked into the county s juvenile facility 20 years earlier, at age 17. want this pudding? yeah, man. and has been incarcerated ever since. i was basically a troubled