way and she got rid of me. i m the bird man of san quentin. mike miller is at san quentin for commercial burglary. he s 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 didn t want me around them. and so, now i m in here, i have a chance to mingle with the birds. and basically, that s about the only friends i ve got are birds. you know, i can t trust anybody else. this is the mental health unit at san quentin s infirmary. the inmates who are housed here generally don t 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.