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 saw didn t see anything in there where you had been on probation for parole before, is that correct? no. i see you were in the air force. yes. you wasn t the 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 your job plan. i give them that and that was it. no talk. see, i do mine a little bit differently. that s good. you know, as far as his chances of making parole, you know, that s difficult to say because the parole board has the final decision. any time you have a case that s a sex case, sex offender and it s dealing with children, and i wouldn t even speculate what his chances are. i mean, i know what s stacked up against him. all right, robert. good luck to you. mm-hmm. and, you kn
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 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 at holman, tedder has developed an appreciation for simple routines. cup of coffee. first thing. cup of coffee and a cigarette. that s it. that s every morning. 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 people in alabama needed a good contractor. i moved up to alabama. five years later i got a warning to get out of town and quit contracting or we re going to stop you. i laughed at them because i was licensed for everything, plumbing, electrical, 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 is being without my wife. it s like she s everything. she s the bubble i live in. i m here to visit my husband, robert tedder.
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, some day, 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 may not be on parole, but he s going to eos his sentence in 2014, and he s coming out. and society is going to have to accept that. see you later. coming up i m making a birdhouse right now. two inmates seek a creative respite from hell. art is my sanity and my salvation. i mean that s what keeps me stable. ace everything in it.
appreciate it. okay. the parole hearing for robert was interesting in that, robert believed every time he might have a chance. he felt very hopeful. he d 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, 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 goal, robert? going back on the street. getting back to work. letting my wife sit back for a while. i m hoping this time that it will go through because things are going a little bit different than it has 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 got a lot of time to make up for. but the wait would continue.