Scars of the System: At Ravenhill, Innocence Is Evidence Against You

Previously published as Scars of the System by Daniel Domzalski.What if your wrongful conviction wasn't a mistake? What if it was the plan?Before Ravenhill, Daniel Shaw was an engineer with a chipped mug by the router and a grocery list in his own hand - milk, batteries, and, underlined twice, Call Elena.He never made the call.Now he's inside Ravenhill - a prison where names are stripped to numbers, blood is filed as procedure, and inconvenient men disappear into records no one is allowed to question.They give Daniel a number: 781364. Then he discovers there is another file on him.It doesn't call him innocent. It doesn't call him guilty. It calls him Expected.Inside, his only ally is Paul Morales, a cellmate who knows far more about his case than any prisoner should. Outside, the sister he never called - Elena - is pulling at the same buried conspiracy from the other side of the walls, one file at a time.But in Ravenhill, help always has a price.Because here, justice isn't blind. It's salaried.Every record has been prepared. Every witness has been managed. Every ending has already been filed.Surviving is only the beginning.Enter Ravenhill - and discover why Daniel Shaw was Expected.