I wrote about Sacha Bond, a Quebec man who had been in a Florida prison since he was 19 - nearly half his life. Due to a series of events, he ended up in a coma, still chained to his hospital bed and under 24/7 guard. From the length of his sentence and the family’s efforts to bring him back to Canada to serve his time, to the state of U.S. prisons and issues around mental health and incarceration, it’s a tragic story on many levels. Sacha Bond died three days after this story was written, on Aug. 16, 2020.

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