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>> you have to have work. you have to have a purpose. and sometimes here they lose that purpose. particularly the ones that have, you know, the life sentences. >> the spring hill hobby shop offers additional opportunities for eligible prisoners to learn skills and work on personal projects. >> those model ships that are sailing ships, i think i've built like ten of those. those things take anywhere from a year to a year and a half to build. but they're a lot of fun. >> i make jewelry. and it gives me substantive income as well, which helps out. gets you by. so you can drink coffee and eat ice ...

And sometimes here they lose that purpose. particularly the ones that have, you know, the life sentences. >> the spring hill hobby shop offers additional opportunities for eligible prisoners to learn skills and work on personal projects. >> those model ships that are sailing ships, i think i've built like ten of those. those things take anywhere from a year to a year and a half to build. but they're a lot of fun. >> i make jewelry. and it gives me substantive income as well, which helps out. gets you by. so you can drink coffee and eat ice cream. >> you have to have a job. you have to be write...

Assigns a dollar value to it. so you have bragging rights. so to speak. >> you have to have work. you have to have a purpose. and sometimes here they lose that purpose. particularly the ones that have, you know, the life sentences. >> the spring hill hobby shop offers additional opportunities for eligible prisoners to learn skills and work on personal projects. >> those model ships that are sailing ships, i think i've built like ten of those. those things take anywhere from a year to a year and a half to build. but they're a lot of fun. >> i make jewelry. and it gives me substantive income as ...

Was that good enough? >> while music helps him cope with life at holman, we met another inmate who finds his aggressive tendencies are soothed in the prison hobby shop at the spring creek correctional center in alaska. >> tell me your first and last name. >> patrick harrington. >> patrick harrington. >> yes. >> i've been in this prison since june of 1988. august will be 20 years. the charge is murder. murder in the first. i try to be in the hobby shop here as much as i can. for me, if i'm not busy, i have the tendency to get in trouble. when the place first opened up, i wasn't really busy. i w...

>> i make jewelry. and it gives me substantive income as well, which helps out. gets you by. so you can drink coffee and eat ice cream. >> you have to have a job. you have to be write-up free for six months. there's a criteria to get in here. >> serving a 99-year sentence for first degree murder, patrick harrington spends his days working on a very special project. >> 2 1/2 years ago i called my younger brother and asked him, hey, can i make your daughter a doll house? he says, sure. so i've been working on this doll house for about two years now. like the windows here, they all work, up and d...