Jessie Black Legal Thrillers Box Set 2 (Fatal Defense, False Justice, Silenced Witness) (Jessie Black Collections) by Larry A. Winters

Author:Larry A. Winters [Winters, Larry A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-07-13T22:00:00+00:00

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After a two-hour drive, Jessie turned her car onto the grounds of the Frackville State Correctional Institution. Its six housing units were spread over about thirty-five acres of land, set off from the surrounding towns by a buffer of about 174 acres. From the comfort of her car, the area seemed serene, peaceful. If not for the razor wire and the guard towers, it might have resembled a college campus. But she knew that illusion would burst the moment she stepped foot inside.

The place was, as Graham had described it, a dungeon full of monsters. A maximum security prison housing over a thousand of the state’s most violent adult male inmates.

She parked her car, took a deep breath, and opened the door. Inside, she waited while guards confirmed her ID, then escorted her past several doors, gates, and barricades to a visitation room. Here she waited while other guards retrieved Trevor Galway from his housing unit.

The visitation room was a fifteen-foot-square box with cement walls. Metal furniture was bolted to the floor. A table and two chairs, cold to the touch. She resisted the instinct to shiver or hug herself. She knew she was probably being observed, and it was hard enough to be taken seriously as a woman in this place.

Through the cement walls she could hear the typical sounds she’d come to associate with prisons and jails—echoing footsteps, distant yelling, the loud buzz of doors opening and closing. It was a grim atmosphere.

A louder buzz sounded as the door to the visitation room unlocked and opened. A burly corrections officer delivered Trevor Galway to the room. The lanky, red-haired inmate glanced briefly at her, then fixed his gaze down at his white, prison-issued slippers. Jessie watched silently as the guard went through the ritual of securing Galway to the floor and the table by threading his handcuff and ankle chains through rings attached to both surfaces. The jingling sound was like a dark parody of a happy Christmas scene. When the procedure was finished, and Galway was secured, the guard finally took his attention off the inmate and looked at Jessie.

“Just knock on the door when you’re done.” With that, he exited the room, leaving Jessie alone with a man she had prosecuted and convicted of murder.

An odor of sweat and musk wafted off the man. He had been in his late twenties when Jessie prosecuted his felony-murder trial. Now, in his early thirties, he was still a relatively young man. But he didn’t look it. Prison had hardened him, taken the youthful vitality out of him. He looked almost like a different person.

“Thanks for agreeing to meet with me, Trevor,” she said, straining to keep her voice level.

Galway looked at her. She was surprised by the lack of resentment or anger in his gaze. She’d expected hostility, but, if anything, he looked happy to see her. Or maybe just happy to have any visitor. “Sure. Sure.” He leaned toward her eagerly. His chains jingled. “You said you

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