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Not wind up back in corrections or warehoused in mental hospitals. >> for 11 years psychiatrist c.j. boyd has worked with the mentally disordered offenders here at atascadero. >> we have three years to get you out to a conditionally released program. get you out to straight parole because you've done really, really well, or you don't do well and we can extend you involuntarily at the end of the parole. >> what do employers look for? tommy? >> the knowledge and the skill involved or the task involved. >> it is rare for this group of patients to stay at atascadero for more than 14 months. >> oka...

I am trying to think of it as more of a school. you know? >> jamal? >> like a college or a school or something. that is the kind of way i try to picture it in my mind. i don't want to think of it as i am locked up here and doing time here, you know. because then, it is -- that's just the same way i was thinking before. if my thinking doesn't change, then i'm going to -- my behavior is not going the change eitheo >> it is our job to help assist them to make positive changes in their life, teach them about their illness. >> give them the tools. >> yeah, give them the tools and the education they...

Them to make positive changes in their life, teach them about their illness. >> give them the tools. >> yeah, give them the tools and the education they need to go back out into the community and not wind up back in corrections or warehoused in mental hospitals. >> for 11 years psychiatrist c.j. boyd has worked with the mentally disordered offenders here at atascadero. >> we have three years to get you out to a conditionally released program. get you out to straight parole because you've done really, really well, or you don't do well and we can extend you involuntarily at the end of the parole...

>> it is our job to help assist them to make positive changes in their life, teach them about their illness. give them the tools. >> yeah. give them the tools of education they need to go back out into the community and not wind up back in corrections or warehoused in a mental hospitals. >> for 11 years psychiatrist c.j. boyd has worked with the mentally disordered offenders at atascadero. you into what's called a conditionally released program. get you out to straight parole because you've done really, or you haven't done well and we have this option to extend you involuntary at the end of th...

>> kitchen manager job. >> i try not to think of it a as prison. i am trying to think of it as more of a school. you know? >> jamal? >> like a college or a school or something. that is the kind of way i try to picture it in my mind. i don't want to think of it as i am locked up here and doing time here, you know. because then, it is -- that's just the same way i was thinking before. if my thinking doesn't change, then i'm going to -- my behavior is not going the change either. >> it is our job to help assist them to make positive changes in their life, teach them about their illness. >> give t...