San Quentin Radio: Autism Behind Bars

Diagnosis is difficult because autism can not detect blood and genes. This is a behavior disorder. Parents and teachers usually have to pay attention to these signs and ask them to try their children. Many people are living their lives without noticing that they are autistic. This includes prison people

Imprisoned journalist Kelton O'Connor tells stories of prisoners who lived in autism for years - he does not know this. He came to St. Quentin's prison and received a diagnosis.

"When I was arrested at the age of 23, I first realized that I could be autism, a lawyer appointed in my court, said:" I thought as "asparagus" So, I said, "What is this?" "This is high-functioning autism, I was shocked."

Cleo Cloman has been detained for more than 20 years for murder. He grew up with his parents' family and dreamed of playing professional baseball. After the relationship with his father became unstable, he lost his enthusiasm for sports and began a new path. This made him lose his freedom after all. But in the year he was imprisoned, he was able to reconnect with his father and regain his love of baseball on the wall of St. Quentin.

All of the authors represented here are prisoners of San Quentin, the minimum requirement of the Supreme Security Prison in northern San Francisco. Most people are convicted of serious crimes and sentenced to that sentence. Therefore, in most cases it will be in jail. But these men are rare as they make their crime young. No, as a teenager. Most teenagers are not men at all. They are flammable animals that can do a lot of things, but consistent rational thinking is not one of them. Young men covered blood vessels with gasoline and had bees in their skulls, but teenagers living in conditions close to poverty and violence, in particular overcoming the long-standing difficulties, overcame confusion and long-standing anger.

Serial killer William Bonin also spent St. Quentin State Prison. Bonin, known as a highway killer, killed rape, torture, at least 21 boys and adolescents. He was executed in San Quentin in 1996. He was the first person to be executed like this in California's history.

If you were sentenced at San Quentin State Prison, this place is not as famous as Alcatraz next door, but if the prison is not well known, it will be ranked at the top of the list. Johnny Cashi plays the famous "At San Quentin" concert in front of a loud group of prisoners here, this is the largest prison in the US, and many of the most dangerous criminals finally arrived here Did. The public is consistent with the so-called "ordinary" - their future is easy to predict. They have three meals a day, a bit of work, and a lot of self-reflection time. Ordinary work, ordinary work, ordinary level of behavior is not a millionaire, it will be a middle-class prisoner who can not go to what he wants when he wants to go.