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Downstairs so a doll can come up and come around on top. the shingles are individual. this is real brick. 900 individual bricks. yeah, it's a lot of work. it's a lot of fun, you know. >> with hobby shop security consisting of little more than surveillance cameras, time spent here is a privilege accorded to only the most trusted inmates. >> you know, there is no officer in here. officers do walk through here at times. they look through the windows. but while this hobby shop has been here, there's been no fights, no trouble in here. >> just a few months away from finishing his niece's present, h...

>> the windows here, they all work up and down. all the doors open and close. all the lights work, the doors open. all the yellow-colored wood is the natural color of the wood. this door up here, this pulls downstairs so a doll can come up and come around on top. the shingles are individual. this is real brick. 900 individual bricks. yeah, it's a lot of work. it's a lot of fun, you know. officers do walk through here at times. the windows, they look flew the windows but while this hobby shop has been here, no fights, no trouble in here. >> thank you. >> just a few months away from finishing hi...

. >> i'd just gotten done putting the camera down. my cameraman was walking around. and then i started hearing a bing, like bing, bing, bing. literally five feet away i see this man probably in his late 50s, early 60s, and i look down and i saw these two younger hispanic guys kicking him in the head, like, repeatedly, and his head was bouncing off this pole. >> what you saw here today was actually a battery. they were stomping his head. you can see he's pretty -- pretty messed up. >> the inmate who was attacked survived because of a quick response by staff on the yard. his assailants were sent...

>> many of them have this warrior mentality. >> by getting that recognition, i get power. >> my job was to go in there and kill him and went in with the intention of killing him. with power i get every one i go to. >> you're surrounded by, you know, a thousand killers. and every one of them did a stranger. >> once i control the yards i control the drug situation. i control the inmates as well. >> we were actually killing people that didn't deserve to be killed. >> this is california's san quentin state prison, one of the first prisons ever profiled on "lockup." >> for a photographer, san quent...

Angry because i'm in prison. i'm angry because i ain't with my family. i'm angry because of the way they treat you, the things they do to you. it ain't never a happy day in prison. >> at the time of our visit wilson had just completed an anger management program, that deputy warden tony patterson arranged for him to take in his cell. >> he needs to grow up. immaturity. you know. but he's working on it. >> i got kids, man. everybody going to change one day. >> for wilson, change is essential. most of his sentence for assaulting the officer will overlap with his original sentence. but just a day...