Kevin McCarthy says one memory from his time in solitary confinement at California’s notorious Pelican Bay State Prison remains especially vivid, even years later.“I was being held in a cell for more than 23 hours a day and hadn’t seen anything but the colour gray,” McCarthy told Al Jazeera over the phone in a recent interview. “And then as they were transferring me to another unit of the prison, they walked me outside and I saw this tree, and it was so green.
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