Sang Nguyen

Sang Nguyen was a 29-year-old Asian man who died on November 11, 2004, after a brutal attack that later surfaced in reporting as part of a much larger, darker chain of violence. The public accounts that mention him place his final hours behind bars, where the ordinary routines of confinement could turn suddenly perilous, and where a single closed door could hide what no one outside would learn about until years later.

According to later reporting, Nguyen was killed by his cellmate, Abron ...