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Girlfriend. but it impressed her the wrong way and she got rid of me. >> im the bird man of san quentin. >> mike miller is at san quentin for commercial burglary. hes got roughly eight months left to serve. >> i think the birds is a good way of releasing a lot of tension and anger. before i got arrested, my girlfriend used to chase the birds away. she didnt want me around them. and so, now im in here, i have a chance to mingle with the birds. and basically, thats about the only friends ive got a...

>> this is the mental health unit at san quentins infirmary. the inmates who are housed here generally dont have the survival skills needed in prison. susan downs, a prison psychiatrist for more than four years, comes here every day to see her patients. a pretty volatile group. she always maintains a safe distance from them, even with a solid steel door between them. >> i have to wear a vest because there was one psychiatrist, they tried to kill her. they grabbed her when she got near the cell p...

>> mike miller is at san quentin for commercial burglary. hes got roughly eight months left to serve. >> i think the birds is a good way of releasing a lot of tension and anger. before i got arrested, my girlfriend used to chase the birds away. she didnt want me around them. and so, now im in here, i have a chance to mingle with the birds. and basically, thats about the only friends ive got are birds. you know, i cant trust anybody else. >> this is the mental health unit at san quentins infirmar...

Way and she got rid of me. >> im the bird man of san quentin. >> mike miller is at san quentin for commercial burglary. hes got roughly eight months left to serve. >> i think the birds is a good way of releasing a lot of tension and anger. before i got arrested, my girlfriend used to chase the birds away. she didnt want me around them. and so, now im in here, i have a chance to mingle with the birds. and basically, thats about the only friends ive got are birds. you know, i cant trust anybody el...

Way of releasing a lot of tension and anger. before i got arrested, my girlfriend used to chase the birds away. she didnt want me around them. and so, now im in here, i have a chance to mingle with the birds. and basically, thats about the only friends ive got are birds. you know, i cant trust anybody else. >> this is the mental health unit at san quentins infirmary. the inmates who are housed here generally dont have the survival skills needed in prison. susan downs, a prison psychiatrist for m...