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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. >> some prison artists, especially those confined to high security cell 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's art outside his cell. a corrections officer offered to hold it in place for our camera. but at another california p...

The critics want to call it 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. >> some prison artists, especially those confined to high security cell nearly have to go to such lengths to create art. >> i got different techniques. but sometimes i just take the colors off an m&m, i fold it and the color come off. i can use that color. and a pen. >> because of his high security level as a confirm gang member, we could only shoot david's art outside his cell. a corrections officer offered to hole it in place for our camera. but at ...

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. >> 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 picture paints a thousand words. and i guess this is my way of saying a thousand words. the critics want to call it 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. >> ...

Of prison for most of the last 23 years. we met him at the riverbend maximum security institution in tennessee. >> 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 they say a picture paints a thousand words. and i guess this is my way of saying a thousand words. the critics want to call it 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. >> some prison artists, especially those confin...