Mike McLusky: A conviction puts the whole family in prison. Whether you're inside dreaming about your people on the outside, or outside praying for your people in, nobody escapes. The cops and the COs are trapped in their own cages too. That cage gets comfortable. And penned in long enough? You adapt. You adapt to anything; you become capable of anything. And you stop imagining what comes after. But for the ones waiting, the future is their only hope. All they want is a release date, because they think it brings resolution. But incarceration is a business, and the prisoners its product. Once you are put through that machine, you are a part of it - no parole or time served, no exoneration. Nothing lasers off that mark. It's in you forever. What you've seen... what you've done. There's no resolution. Mostly, society's right - sometimes being branded, put in a cage, is the only way to save you.