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Check out the moment President Obama meets with federal prison inmates as part of our upcoming HBO special on the criminal justice system.
Seventeen years later, he will walk out a free man. There is awfully little chance of of relapsing, of finding himself back in the throes of drug dealing, Lindsay says. While inside, he never believed he'd serve out his sentence. Instead, he prepared for the day when he'd be released, studying real estate and the stock market with inmates who'd navigated those systems on the outside. "Because I believed I would one day get out," he says, "I wanted to be emotionally, mentally, and spiritually prepared for when I get out. I never gave up, I never gave in." Telisha Watkins, who will be freed in mid-November after being sentenced to 20 years in 2007 for charges of cocaine and marijuana possession, declined relocation to a halfway house, instead opting to be released to her older sister who lives in Charlotte, North Carolina. Having not been raised together, Watkins doesn't know her sister well, but is hoping to spend that time reacquainting herself with what little family she still has.