The format of this book is so unique! This story is made up of letters, comics, transcripts of voice recordings, news reports, and photographs. With all the different types of media coming together to tell the book, I got through this one pretty quickly. A small town built around a state prison serves as the setting of this novel. Most of the members of the community have family members who work in law enforcement and/or for the prison. There is a chain of events that occur (starting with two inmates breaking out of the prison) that show the community members that those in law enforcement are not always the good guys as they had once thought. Messner, the author, does a fantastic job handling the many issues with law enforcement today. It is a YA book and I actually think this would be a fantastic resource for many preteens and early teenagers to begin to explain the current political climate. The content is very timely and I believe they would relate to the three narrators of this story, as they are around the same age.