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>> for adult prisoners, we have the alaska corrections industries which is the furniture shop where they learn the skills of woodworking. but they really learn the skills of going to work every day, giving a full day's job. >> some of these guys are the highest-paid guys in the institution. we start off at 85 cents an hour and it goes from there. >> greg houck has supervised the alaska correctional industries furniture shop for the last five years. >> we sell to private businesses, oil fields, related industries. close to $500,000 a year for the sales. since i've been here, for five years. how...

Businesses, oil fields, related industries. close to $500,000 a year for the sales. since i've been here, for five years. how long before you have all this cut, sewed up? >> by 10:00 tomorrow morning, cut up, sewed up. probably about another three hours. >> it's one of the most productive jobs here. one of the only places you can make something and somebody else 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. >> ...

Alaska correctional industries furniture shop for the last five years. >> we sell to private businesses, oil fields, related industries. close to $500,000 a year for the sales. since i've been here, for five years. how long before you have all this cut, sewed up? >> by 10:00 tomorrow morning, cut up, sewed up. probably about another three hours. >> it's one of the most productive jobs here. one of the only places you can make something and somebody else 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 he...

Also given the chance to develop marketable skills. >> for adult prisoners, we have the alaska corrections industries which is the furniture shop where they learn the skills of woodworking. but they really learn the skills of going to work every day, giving a full day's job. >> some of these guys are the highest-paid guys in the institution. we start off at 85 cents an hour and it goes from there. >> greg houck has supervised the alaska correctional industries furniture shop for the last five years. >> we sell to private businesses, oil fields, related industries. close to $500,000 a year for ...

>> for adult prisoners, we have the alaska corrections industries which is the furniture shop where they learn the skills of woodworking. but they really learn the skills of going to work every day, giving a full day's job. >> some of these guys are the highest-paid guys in the institution. we start off at 85 cents an hour and it goes from there. >> greg houck has supervised the alaska correctional industries furniture shop for the last five years. >> we sell to private businesses, oil fields, related industries. close to $500,000 a year for the sales. since i've been here, for five years. how...