CAGED FREEDOM

What really happens to a boy who walks into an alley and doesn't come? Will he be the same? From there, everything shifts. Courts think they're locking up a repeat offender. What they're really doing is unlocking something else entirely. Inside the walls, where noise is money and weakness is hunted, he learns fast: survival isn't enough. Not here. Observation is power. Emotion is liability. Words? Optional.
A few years pass. He doesn't rise. He disappears, into the cracks, into the data, int...