Librarians usually. I havent found many of them yet. It can be worse for the sex offender. I was burned with hot water out of a hot pot with baby oil and hair grease. Thats a permanent scar forever. Most of the prisons we profile on lockup are maximum security prisons. I mean, these are hardcore places with gang members, rapists, murderers. Every once in a while we come across a fish out of water story, the guy next door, the neighbor. Where you ask the question, how did this guy end up here . This is California State Prison, corcoran. A maximum security prison that has housed some of the nations most infamous criminals including Charles Manson and the founder of the mexican mafia. Despite its reputation, violence doesnt come naturally to everyone at corcoran. I dont see myself as being like many of the people here. What i saw the longer i was here is there really is a thin line between them and me. Before he was an inmate, stefan parro was a librarian. Im here basically because im an
ever since his 1984 conviction teter said his charges were trumped up in order to run him out of town. i found out a bunch of people here in alabama needed a good contractor so i moved up to alabama. five years later i got a warning to get out of town and stop contracting or we re going to stop you. i laughed at them because i was licensed for everything. plumbing, electrical, everything. they stopped me. they pulled the rug out from under my feet, laid fake charges on me and took me to court. i have been here since 1990. and it s a long time. now i have 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. the hardest part of it is being without my wife. it s like she s she s everything. she s the bubble i live in.
well, 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 right now, robert? getting back on the street. going back to work. because things are going a little bit different than it has in the past times. i done got everything prepared where we can have a little time together and everything. whenever he does get out. we ve got a lot of time to make up for. the wait would continue. teter was once again denied parole. he will most likely not leave holman until his 30-year sentence is complete. i have two daughters. i like at it from that perspective. do i want these people around my family? no. but there again, some day in this case robert teter is going to walk out this door free. so you have to look at it from that side.
incarceration, 17 served at holman, teter 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. then, you know, comb your hair, get dressed, go outside. there is no such thing as a 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 he 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 he was falsely accused, falsely convicted.