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Tin Nguyen slept in on Christmas Eve 2018. It was a light sleep. Nguyen says at California State Prison in Lancaster you sleep light for your own safety. He heard his cell number, 144, prison number, 06, and last name called over the mic. His door popped open and he ran to the prison’s tower. “Are you sure?” he asked. A guard confirmed. Nguyen’s sentence, life without possibility of parole, had been commuted by Gov. Jerry Brown. Advertisement “I was so happy — on cloud nine that day,” Nguyen said. “It was chaotic. I just ran around giving hugs to everybody.” The now 48-year-...

Tin Nguyen slept in on Christmas Eve 2018. It was a light sleep. Nguyen says at California State Prison in Lancaster you sleep light for your own safety. He heard his cell number, 144, prison number, 06, and last name called over the mic. His door popped open and he ran to the prison’s tower. “Are you sure?” he asked to double-check that he had been summoned. A guard confirmed. Nguyen’s sentence, life without possibility of parole, had been commuted by Gov. Jerry Brown. “I was so happy — on cloud nine that day,” Nguyen said. “It was chaotic. I just ran around giving hugs to ev...