Please sit down.
Ellis Boyd Redding...
...your files say you've served
40 years of a life sentence.
You feel you've been rehabilitated?
Rehabilitated?
Well, now, let me see.
I don't have any idea
what that means.
It means you're ready
to rejoin society--
I know what you think it means, sonny.
To me it's just a made-up word.
A politician's word so that...
...young fellas like yourself
can wear a suit and a tie...
...and have a job.
What do you really want to know?
Am I sorry for what I did?
Well, are you?
There's not a day goes by
I don't feel regret.
Not because I'm in here
or because you think I should.
I look back on the way I was then...
...a young...
...stupid kid who committed
that terrible crime.
I want to talk to him.
I want to try
and talk some sense to him.
Tell him the way things are.
But I can't.
That kid's long gone...
...and this old man is all that's left.
I got to live with that.
Rehabilitated?
It's just a bullshit word.
So you go on and stamp your forms,
sonny, and stop wasting my time.
Because to tell you the truth...
...I don't give a shit.