My sister framed me for a hit-and-run—and my parents expected me to take the blame, until the truth came out and changed everything

was a textbook example of psychological deprivation.

It was a claustrophobic, windowless concrete box painted in a nauseating institutional shade of off-white. A single violently bright fluorescent tube buzzed angrily overhead.

In the center of the room was a bolted-down steel table with two heavily scuffed aluminum chairs. One entire wall was dominated by a massive, perfectly clean two-way mirror.

The officer pushed me into the chair furthest from the door. He unhooked my handcuffs only to immediately recuff my right wrist to a heavy iron ring welded directly to