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While some inmates might spend their time behind bars creating mayhem, we've met plenty of others who choose a very different path. they use their time in prison to do something constructive. for many, that means turning to art. paul majors had been in and out of prison for most of the last 23 years when we met him at the riverbend maximum security institution in tennessee. >> well, it's therapeutic for me because it gives me a chance to escape and release a lot of tension. i can look at the situation in the world today and what i can't say verbally, i can say in a picture because they say a p...

♪ . >> here with elisabeth to perform "carolina" live this hour. "fox & friends" begins right now they're great. what a story. oh, my goodness. >> yes. >> the drummer. >> yeah. >> it's this hour. headlines? >> they were so lucky to have gotten elisabeth in that video. >> you know what's more incredible? the painting that came out of that that i was working on in the video. it's a picture of acrylics in oil. >> looking forward to that. they sound great warming up. developing overnight, another nfl game ends in violence. at this hour, denver police are trying to figure out what led to a stab...

While some inmates might spend their time behind bars creating mayhem, we've met plenty of others who choose a very different path. they use their time in prison to do something constructive. for many, that means turning to art. paul majors had been in and out of prison for most of the last 23 years when we met him at the riverbend maximum security institution in tennessee. >> well, it's therapeutic for me because it gives me a chance to escape and release a lot of tension. i can look at the situation in the world today and what i can't say verbally, i can say in a picture because they say a p...

While some inmates might spend their time behind bars creating mayhem, we've met plenty of others who choose a very different path. they use their time in prison to do something constructive. for many, that means turning to art. paul majors had been in and out of prison for most of the last 23 years when we met him at the riverbend maximum security institution in tennessee. >> well, it's therapeutic for me because it gives me a chance to escape and release a lot of tension. i can look at the situation in the world today and what i can't say verbally, i can say in a picture because they say a p...

A thousand words. i use acrylics, water colors, chalk pastels, pen and ink. if they gave me a stick in mud, i would use that. anything i get my hands on, i can use. >> and some prison artists, especially those confined to high-security cells, nearly have to go to such lengths to create art. >> i got different techniques, but sometimes i just take the color off an m&m. the color come off. i can use that color. >> because of his high security level as a confirmed gang member, we could only shoot david hampton's art outside of his cell at pelican bay. a corrections officer offered to hold it in p...