the three strikes law looms over gregory gadlin, a newer law might prove to be a salvation for giles davisvicted of murder and robbery booked into the county's juvenile facility 20 years earlier at age 17. he's been incarcerated ever since. >> i was basically a troubled kid. followed my case 2 1/2 years. by the time i was sentenced i was 20, and a couple weeks after that, i was in prison. i kind of thought maybe i would get 25 to life. i thought i would have a chance to get out eventually. one day. but when she says, gave me the life without a possibility of parole sentence, you know, it was like, it's over with. it's a death sentence. i'm dead. what that did to me, i can't even put into words. it took away any hope that i had. i don't know. just a part of me felt like, you just threw me away. >> wallace spent the past 17 years in some of california the most notorious maximum security prisons. >> i first got off the bus i knew this is my life. this is it right here. this is -- this is all i'm going to see. this is all i'm going to know. i'm going to die here. >> but wallace was recently co