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>> 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 was in fights, basically beating up other people. >> but in the hobby shop harrington focuses those energies on something far more delicate. an incredibly detailed dollhouse he was building as a gift for his niece. >> i'...

It's for his muse. >> everything i do i dedicate to my wife. the blue heart is because we have been separated for 23 years now. she is still with me. she is sticking with me through this. i always put a blue heart on every letter i mail to her, every card i send to her. i put a blue heart on the case and the guitar. it's just our symbol, being separated so long. ♪ 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 y...

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 down. all the doors open and close. all the lights work. this door up here. it's pull-down stairs. so like a little doll can come up around the top. this is real brick. 900 individual bricks. it's a lot of work. it's a lot of fun. my brother has another daughter that's a ye...

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 well, which helps out. gets yo...

The charge is murder. murder in the first. i try to be in the hobby shop here as much as i can. an incredibly detailed dollhouse he was building as a gift for his niece. >> i've been working on this dollhouse for about two years now. it's for that young girl. the young girl, she has no idea i'm making it. she has no idea it's coming down there. >> harrington gave our crew a tour of his masterpiece. >> the windows 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 downs...