The name itself sounds almost quaint— Fox River —like a place for fishing trips and summer cabins. But anyone within fifty miles of Joliet knows the truth. Fox River isn't a river. It's a concrete labyrinth where the air tastes of rust, bleach, and desperation.
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The walls are thirty feet of reinforced granite, sunk into limestone bedrock. The yard is a dirt patch under a permanent steel-gray sky. And the cell blocks? They call them "human filing cabinets." Row after row of steel doors, each one a lid on a man’s life. The name itself sounds almost quaint— Fox River