From San Quentin Radio:
Chanthon Bun is one of the incarcerated men at San Quentin who escaped the regime of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia as a child.
"I always seen myself as a survivor, and it was surviving through any means; robbing, stealing killing. It was a point of survival, it led to the way I lived my life, it led to my crime. It led to my belief system, the way I thought, the way I interact with humans."
Click the play button above to hear Chanton's story.
Uncuffed, formerly San Quentin Radio, is a project in which KALW editors train incarcerated people to report stories from inside prison. A CDCR official listened to and approved the audio for this story prior to broadcast.
This originally aired in September of 2018.