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Christmastime at Massachusetts Correctional Institute(MCI) Cedar Junction was one of chaos and pity. The inmates were the worst of the worst in Massachusetts and had done things at other prisons to earn their isolation and apathy from the staff. They were the worst of the worst for a good reason, most would kill you to get what they wanted while others would use you to get what they needed. There were several groups of people that clung together despite their isolation. Most joined together because of race or religious beliefs but some, like Roland Finn, did so because of the need to have a group of people cater to his needs. There was safety in numbers and Roland thrived on numbers, and for some he was the only person willing to take them into their group for protection while they offered him eyes and ears as most ignored their presence. After getting beaten badly by inmates who happily told of the crimes that he was convicted of, Roland smartly chose who to hang around and who to manipulate into being his eyes and ears in the cell block. It was a brilliant move as within weeks he had gotten more and more people to work with him and got the "undesirables" among the prisoners to band around him forming a small army. There was safety in numbers, with the other gangs finding out too late that their ignoring people who weren't what they had wanted in lackeys was a dumb move as there were more of them than the gangs combined. Roland was a classic bully who never grew up, the group was a classic clique that fed his ego and need to bully others. He had pushed his family around for years until his brother fought back and forced him out, sending Roland down a path of self-destruction that led to him to a life of crime and drugs. He blamed this all on his brother, but in reality it was his own creation based on lies to himself. Roland spent years in a drug haze. When he wasn't high on either crack or prescription pills he was selling both to earn enough money to feed his habit. When selling wasn't enough he would assault and rob whomever was near him and use that money to buy his next hit, often ending up arrested only to earn fines, probation, and short jail stints. It was a tough life, but Roland eventually got himself mostly clean and got a job running drugs between cities for his mother's cousin, Victoria Williams. Victoria kept him under her thumb, allowing him to use while also ensuring that he was clean enough to push her latest drug strain on the streets. Roland was her best dealer and eventually got himself involved in selling kilos of drugs instead of dime bags when he could be trusted enough to transport and sell them instead of smoking them away. The promotion was a disaster for Victoria as Roland brought in a small- time pusher called Felix Arnold to sell the stash to some new buyers in the market. Felix sold half of the stash to break even financially but held onto the rest, keeping the money for himself. He thought he could use it against Roland but that never happened, Roland wasn't dumb enough to fall for his tricks. During the time Felix was selling his stash, Roland was given one last shot at getting clean and clear up his legal issues thanks to his brother John. John sent him away to rehab in Minnesota and for a year Roland was out of contact with everyone that he knew. He wasn't able to leave until the year was up, not even for the funeral of their mother or for visits from family to check up on his progress. As part of his release, Roland was forbidden from ever associating with his former colleagues. This was a problem for Roland as he immediately got involved with Felix to get his money so he could pay Victoria her cut of the profits and settle his older debts to her. Felix had his money and the remaining kilos of cocaine but before he could do anything with it Roland was arrested alongside Felix for drug trafficking and possession with intent to distribute charges as well as violating his probation. This sent Roland down a spiral of self-destruction as he had Felix killed and tried to have Felix's son Miles kidnapped. Roland bribed several people in the jail to get word out to his closest associates as well as used his girlfriend to get at Miles through her job with the Department of Children and Families(DCF). His plans failed when Miles was adopted by John and John personally foiled Roland's plans by getting him to confess to the conspiracy to kidnap Miles and having Felix killed as well as the trafficking and possession charges. Roland spent years in isolation as he was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison with parole unlikely due to his being a danger to everyone he knew. His actions were enough to get him sent to the specialized unit at Cedar Junction, and with nobody allowed to associate with him outside the prison he was all alone. He found solace in other inmates but he was all alone in his little world. For a man who prided himself on his rough exterior, Christmas was the worst time for him. Most of the other inmates had families on the outside who were awaiting them when they were released, if they ever got out. Roland had nobody, not even his two daughters would have anything to do with him especially not after he ignored them for years and showed that he thought of them as just bargaining chips for a better life for himself in prison. The years passed by slowly. Four years of isolation and contemplation as most other inmates saw their families and either were moved to less secure prisons or released on parole. Roland had started to see that he was never getting out of prison no matter how many appeals he filed and how much he pleaded with his family to help him out of his jam, his home was the prison and he was stuck there until he the day he died- a just ending for a person whose whole life had been one crime after another. From his confined quarters at a long distance, Roland had to see his family grow over the years as they were in the media frequently. His nephews were some of the best athletes in the state and his nieces were both smart and beautiful even if two were transgender and two were gay. He hated to admit it to anyone, but John was the luckiest man in the world in becoming a father to seven wonderful kids. Christmastime was the worst for him as he received letters from his sister-in-law telling him that his letters to his daughters were appreciated and they had been informed about their existence but not to send any further letters to them. He read her letters over and over and saw the subtext: they were doing well but didn't want anything to do with him. Unbeknownst to his family, he had all the news he had ever wanted about them just by listening to the complaints in the prison and in the courthouses by various people who had fought and lost legally and physically to members of his family over the years. His brother's family had gotten dozens of people to join their enclave and create a whole unofficial family as they came together, one that was unlike any other. John had helped dozens of people in life without trying hard while all Roland had done was ruin lives by selling drugs and robbing people to feed his habit. The news of John's son Michael marrying and having a child caused Roland to see that he was a 38-year-old loser and finally start thinking about his own life and where it all went wrong. He spent hours writing out his memories, finally seeing just where his life went wrong and what caused it. He honestly couldn't understand what happened to him as he read over what he had written and remembered where, when, why, and how his like had changed for the worse over time. It all started 29 years before. Roland was 8 and was at home with John while their mother was out shopping and their sisters were out with friends. The two were bored so Roland suggested that they play in their sisters' bedroom to see what they had hidden that they didn't want the boys to see. John was reluctant but Roland goaded him into looking. Roland knew the girls had some good stuff hidden in their room, he saw them hiding things. He didn't know what but they had interesting stuff. John didn't dig too deeply into their drawers but Roland found several pairs of panties, blouses, skirts, and training bras that he insisted the two wear. John reluctantly put them on, not liking any of it while Roland laughed as they looked at one another in the mirrors. The reaction of John was what he wanted, it was pure terror and frustration which always made Roland laugh out loud at. For Roland, it was fun and excitement in addition to the comedy of John's reactions. The thrill of getting caught while also doing something so odd that nobody would think they'd do gave him much of that excitement. He actually loved the feel of the clothes and enjoyed how he looked in them, seeing himself as a beautiful girl compared to John's drag queen. Roland shuddered at the thought when John said they had better get changed as they needed to put everything back to how they had found them. He wasn't a girl but he saw himself as a girl when dressed up in the clothes. It wasn't the last time he would dress like that, not when it felt so great. Years passed and Roland would dive into the clothes whenever he was alone. John never dressed again, instead diving into his schoolwork and the after school program their father enrolled him in. Roland was barred from the program by the director because of fighting, done during one of his attempts to show that he was the toughest boy in the city and embarrass John while also trying to suppress his desires to dress in his sisters' clothes. Roland's dressing was kept a secret and he never did it in public, not even with his brother home. When Roland was kicked out of the Finn home when he turned 18, he soon got a string of jobs working in dance clubs as a drag queen and hostess while also dealing drugs to the various patrons and dancers but couldn't hold down the job for long due to his growing drug addiction. It was during this time that he started to find dealing to be more lucrative and beat his desires to dress as a girl by flooding it with the drugs he was selling so that they numbed his senses and left him wanting more. His desires led to him trying his hardest to be the manliest of men by going after small-time crooks and dealers and forcing them out of the business. His aggression was legendary with his reputation as the go-to enforcer for the larger dealers leading to him climbing up the ranks of local dealers. It was a perfect match but one done with pain and suffering as his addiction grew alongside his prestige, all just to quell a feeling of his desires being wrong and being unable to control them without the drugs. Hearing from his moles in the neighborhood that John had a transgender daughter made Roland snap and try to excise the feelings permanently. It was a big reason for him going to rehab, he got his legal issues cleared up and got clean but a lot of what went on there was trying to, "Fix" his dressing issues. If John knew what the doctors at the Minnesota clinic were really doing with Roland he immediately would have killed the therapy and removed Roland to a more progressive and supportive location, then forcing the doctors to face discipline for their harmful puritanical "therapy" treatment. Roland's problem was "fixed" alright, but his suppressed desires actually amplified his need to control and manipulate even more. This was why he went after Felix and why he rejoined the drug game so quickly after returning home to Winnisimmet. He was the new king of the drug trade but it lasted exactly two weeks thanks to Felix's screw-ups in getting notice of the state and local police. This same arrogance and need to control the situation led to his boasting to John about his crimes and that he was going after Felix's son Miles. This boasting led to John angrily telling him just who he had tried to kidnap- his new son. John's proclamation was so cold and rage-filled that Roland feared that it would be the final straw with his brother and he'd be serious hurt or killed by John. John didn't hurt him, he humiliated him in the worst way possible- by doing nothing. He walked away from the jail with his friend and let the deputies handle Roland, who had urinated himself and was still shaking from John's booming voice. He was a broken man, John had caused Roland's downfall and all he had to do was stand up to Roland in the one way he never expected- firm and with authority. Roland's humiliation didn't end there, he tried to outwit his family a month later by challenging for the custody of his unacknowledged biological daughter. This time he faced someone who was smarter than him and who had something Roland didn't have: a legal mind and support from the family. He tried and lost his custody battle and was forced to stop all further attempts at custody of his biological daughters due to the Dept. of Children and Families threatening to go after him for child support payments. He learned the truth about his daughters and stopped all battles. He had nothing on a woman who could use her entire fortune, one claimed to be in the billions, to go after him by any means necessary to save her daughters from a vulture. He had to stay away and called in every favor that he had built up just to get her to agree to leave him alone so long as he left his daughters alone. Fours later it was Thanksgiving and the cell block was draped in Christmas decorations courtesy of the local churches and donations from the congregations. The prisoners were in no mood to celebrate as Roland had changed in the past few weeks leading to chaos in the hierarchy. Roland had sequestered himself for two weeks after his soul searching and ignored his underlings allowing two factions, one led by Mason Jeffries and another led by Colby Lee, to battle for supremacy. Both men were deadly afraid of Roland, with Jeffries being beaten on numerous occasions by Roland over his remarks towards Roland's sister Karen Smith and her children. Jeffries had tried to kidnap Roland's young nephew Ethan Smith when he first came to the US and harbored a strong hatred for Roland's brother-in-law Nigel and his daughter Nichole Smith, blaming them for his troubles. Roland had told him that if he ever said one thing bad about either his niece or nephew or his sister again the man would be shanked in the shower and bleed out before he hit the floor. Colby had slowly built up his power in the 20 months that he had been in prison, joining with several of the white supremacist gangs before overthrowing their leader in a bloody coup. Colby had earned the respect of his crew through shared bigotry and influencing the black market goods that his group were able to smuggle into the prison. His keen brain had gotten him to the top without even working, thanks to others forcing out the competition for him. Roland was too busy writing out his long confessional manuscript and eventually stopped bothering to run things entirely. He was so engrossed in his work that he hastily told his lieutenants to figure out which members of the groups were best to take over then merge them together into a single, stronger group that catered to everyone. He knew who would be chosen and why, the remnants of the two groups would cause an implosion that would end the feud with the two leaders ending up powerless. Roland spent days in seclusion and only ate when he was forced to by his trusted lieutenants. The men had respect for Roland and were kept around by him as they were more powerful than they let on and had been some of the few who stood up to him when he was on a power trip. Both were in that prison for beating senseless fellow inmate who went after them for being "weak" and being in prison for what was seen as laughable crimes: fraud; the duo were actually former boxers and MMA fighters who fell on hard times and turned to crime, and after showing the weren't afraid of him joined Roland's group. Roland's group held together under the duo and showed that Roland was wise in keeping them around, but the duo were loyal to Roland and appreciated that he could see the danger in them and didn't try to use them as enforcers and bullies. Roland grew fond of them to the point of being like a father-figure to the young men, with Roland happy to see that it was getting close to the time to hand things off to the ones who deserved to lead. The duo didn't know it, but what he was doing was for their benefit. At the Sunday religious services the reverend, Arnold Brooks, spoke with Roland in private and agreed to facilitate someone taking on his manuscript so it could be cleaned up and used to make something of the long document. Roland was adamant that it not be shown to anyone and if need be he would deny ever writing it and have it stolen and destroyed with Reverend Brooks hurt in retaliation. Reverend Brooks ignored it, Roland had no way of actually doing that but he kept the manuscript to just himself and the editor anyway just to honor Roland's wishes. A week went by and Reverend Brooks showed the initial results of the editing. The story was a great one, it was felt that he could have it turned into a movie or TV series but it legally couldn't be done due to him profiting from his crimes. Roland had to think and told him that his brother controlled his future, he was the one to talk with about it as he had said he piece and couldn't do more with it. Reverend Brooks took the manuscript with him and showed it to John who angrily called it fiction. He then told the man, "It's his version of events. He tormented people for years and almost caused them to commit suicide, both my own and my friend Katie's." It was a conundrum for Reverend Brooks. Valerie Finn, John's wife, added, "He can't profit from his crimes. He has several people whose lives were ruined by his actions. He had a man murdered for god's sake! Surely as a man of the cloth murder has to strike you hard?" Reverend Brooks tried to plead with them that it was his act of penance but Valerie was adamant that it was his way of trying to justify his actions while making himself look like a victim again. She showed him pictures of multiple people who had been badly abused by Roland during his lifetime, stating firmly, "He assaulted his mother for years, tried to kill his own brother a dozen times during his drug-induced rages, tried to hold his own niece and nephew captive in exchange for money for his drugs, and drove a classmate to try to commit suicide a half dozen times before he was expelled for his actions. He isn't seeking salvation or penance, he's seeking attention and pity from you and anyone who reads that piece of fiction. You are a noble man for trying to help him get his story out, but it's pure fiction." Reverend Brooks was left to ponder the life of Roland Finn and consulted with the editor about it. It was a tough situation but it was inviting a lawsuit against them by at least seven known people if not more. There was some artistic merit to the story but it portrayed too many in a bad light and glossed over his worst actions in favor of making him look like a tortured soul. The next day Karen Smith asked to speak with Reverend Brooks and the editor, bringing with her her son Bryan and daughter Hannah. She was blunt and to the point, telling them that Roland's story could only be told if the family approved of it. She showed a contract that was signed by John, Valerie, their sister Leslie, Bryan, Hannah, Miles, and his sister Jaimie and brother Michael. They were the only family who would be mentioned in the book as they were the ones who had been in contact with Roland before he went to prison and knew him best. Valerie, Michael, and Jaimie were all told the stories about him from everyone who knew him but had also met him before and could attest to his being a total scumbag to anyone. Miles was the one who knew him best outside of the Finn home and was adamant that the real story of his life be told as he was actually responsible for Felix's murder despite claims that he was innocent and others did it to frame him. The editor looked it over and had to agree that they were the beneficiaries of Roland's finances and as the actual subject of the book they were the ones to have a say in how it is written. Roland's manuscript was handed over to Hannah to read and edit, with her choosing what to showcase and what to remove before the editor even got his hands on it. It was the only alternative and she was capable of the job, being a literature major in college and knowing the events as an eyewitness / victim. The week before Christmas Hannah furiously rewrote and edited the manuscript and inserted what was needed to show the real Roland Finn and his antics over the past 38 years. She went at it from an angle that made sense to the family but didn't take away from the tragedy of Roland's personal life that he had hidden from all of his family members. She was not afraid to highlight the man's many weaknesses and needs, as well as why he was the way he was and his impact on his family. She finished the story and sent it off to the editor, telling him firmly that nothing was to be removed and he was to only fix errors that she had missed. The man sent it back the next day with an angry note saying, "There was nothing to change. You gutted the old story and left the barest bones. He's completely different and is made out to be a complete jerk." Hannah grinned as he told her off. She then countered with a strong, "It's how he really is and how he is going to be portrayed in the book. He did everything mentioned, he purposely left out his fights with Uncle John and his assaulting mom, Aunt Leslie, and grandma. He left out why he did a lot of what he did and what the results were for the family. He may have had his reasons for diving into the world of drugs and violence but he still hurt many people during his downward spiral. He isn't some innocent lost in the world, he chose to act the way he did to hide his secret, one that none of us actually care about and if you ever actually read up on our family you would see why." She drew the line and the man was left with nothing to counter with. Roland's antics were mostly to cover up his feelings of inadequacy and longing to dress like a woman yet his own family had been shown to have embraced people who were transgender and would have supported him fully, making most of his actions for nothing as it wouldn't have mattered to them. He chose to get involved with the drug trade to keep his mind off his dressing even after he found out that his family supported people who had gender issues like him so there was no excuse for his actions anymore. The story was sent off to the publisher to consider further action. The family would handle the actual book promotion and give the proper interviews while redirecting the proceeds to their chosen charities. Roland wouldn't get a penny, but he would get a big shock from his supporters separating from him when his dressing needs was exposed for all to see. Reverend Brooks got to know the real Finn family as the book was being rewritten and endured hours of intense talk with John over how the family survived despite the challenges against them. John himself was almost a martyr as he put himself in the line of fire and endured years of Roland's wrath at the expense of his body and his mental health. The man was as patient as a saint but it was all John biding his time until he could rid them of Roland forever, all for the protection of his loved ones. The book was seen by the publishing house as a new bestseller and Hannah's actual writing of it gave it more credence as Roland's fingerprints were wiped off of it in favor of hers. She had earned a second look by the publishers as a future star if she decided to write on her own, but she had to explain that her work was strictly in the children's book area. Showed them her idea and it turned out to be just what they were looking for in a new book series, she had her foot in the door already and they would gladly take on a star who brought them millions in sales at the expense of Roland's vision of his life story. Reading her ideas for stories it was felt that Hannah's stories were ones that were cute and would be big hits with the kids. Her story about the little magical animal who was cast out by her family because she refused to be either a cat or a rabbit was touching and hit all of the right notes with them. Her story about the muscle car that just wanted to be a minivan was both funny and satirical in its commentary, making it a good read for most pre-adolescent kids. Christmas arrived and brought news that Roland's manuscript was accepted for publication but it also brought news that his family had taken over the rights to it due to stipulations in the laws. Roland was devastated, but included in the letter was a statement from Reverend Brooks that his family had not altered any of what he had written, only included the proper perspective that he meant to convey. It was the best that he was going to get, his story would get out there for all to read even if it meant that what he originally tried to say was overruled by his family forcing the truth to be told over his lies. He received in the mail something that shocked him more, a card with several pictures from his nieces and nephews that included who was who. He recognized Miles, Michael, and Jaimie Finn, barely recognized Hannah and Bryan, and sadly he recognized his own daughters, Daisy and Claire Peterson. The other kids and teens were new to him, he didn't know them or recognize them. The note explained, "We are your daughters, nieces, and nephews. We carry the Smith, Finn, Peterson, Sylvester, and Samuels name. You missed our weddings and the birth of our children. You are going to be a great-uncle in four and five months. You admitted the truth about yourself for everyone to see and will deal with the news, you can't get out of prison but you at least will know that you have family that still loves you despite your harmful actions. You are trying to atone for your misdeeds but still have to pay for your actions." He had to hide his shame as he read the names of every kid in the family. He knew three were adopted by John but two more had to have been adopted recently along with two that his wife gave birth to based on the boy, JD, looking like his father while the girl, Cat, looked like his own sister Leslie. It pained him to see that the man had helped another two kids start over in life while he wasted away in prison blaming everyone else for his troubles that only he had caused. John had been what he could never be, a great father who taught his kids well and got them to see that life was going to get better if they tried to make things better. Roland had been jealous of John's ability to work hard and try to get things done while Roland coasted by on his good looks and his ability to manipulate. John was always the better man, Roland just could never accept that until then. Christmas Day hit Roland hard but it was what he needed most in life. He vowed that he would work to change things even if he would never get out of prison. He looked over the cell block and saw what he could do right away, grinning as he saw the groups getting ready to go to war for Roland's old position while their underlings were starting to falter and congeal into a new combined group. Roland spoke with his chief lieutenants and had them execute their plan. The groups broke apart almost immediately as Colby's group couldn't do much without their money man while Jeffries' group were short on manpower as their largest guys bowed out in favor of better deals from Roland's former gang. The two leaders were left to fight over the last scraps as the cell block broke into smaller groups with Roland's former group in charge of everyone. Roland announced to his supporters, "I'm done with this place. I'm getting myself sent to a more secure segregation unit soon and am letting those losers fight for what doesn't exist anymore. You are all too good to have one person leading you. This is a democracy, not a dictatorship. Do what you need to do but don't be anyone's stooge anymore. Make something of yourselves in your time left here." Roland bowed out to applause as the lieutenants hammered out an agreement among the prisoners, an unofficial constitution. They were actually getting along well and without the inhibitors brought on by the forced differences between groups they had a stable relationship. Roland had done what few prisons had been able to do, he had gotten reform brought in just by allowing them to settle things as equals. Two days later Roland received pictures in the incoming mail. The first was of his nieces and nephews at Michael's wedding, the second was of his daughters and future son-in-law. The final picture was of his sisters, their husbands, and his sister-in-law taken by his camera-shy brother. Roland felt that this was them offering a small olive branch to him after understanding his actions even if they didn't accept them. It was years in the making but it was a small gesture of caring that he had not deserved nor had he sought out. He took it as a sign that things were changing and he had to accept it. Roland calmed himself and readied for what was to come. He spoke with guards and offered the state everything that he knew about everyone including a lot of people who were at large and who had gotten away with crimes that were unsolved due to lack of evidence. It was time to clear his conscience, it was time for Roland Finn to man-up and accept responsibility for his actions and face justice. He spent the next six weeks at the Berkshire County House of Corrections in Pittsfield talking with the various police and federal agencies about the crimes he had committed as well as those done by others. He held back nothing, telling his side of things and giving locations for where several missing bodies and weapons were buried. He even named names of those in law enforcement who protected others, including a four agents in the Winnisimmet FBI office and a dozen Boston Police officers. Roland's information led to quick uncovering of several graves and multiple buried weapons. He had given agents enough to take down several criminal rackets in addition to solving the murders of several low-level criminals and addicts. Roland had all but assured of convictions for most of the top wanted criminals in the Boston area, many of whom had been deemed untouchable before. Roland's activities reverberated through the criminal world. He testified before multiple grand juries and gave sworn statements about numerous crimes he personally witnessed. The once notorious drug pusher had become a full-on rat against the criminal world, all because of his family showing him love. Roland was met with fierce resistance in jail and needed around the clock watch to prevent anyone from tampering with his food or harming him in the shower. He was a virtual prisoner, being kept away from everyone including his own lawyers. He met with them regularly but only under heavy guard and with all actions recorded to ensure nothing was slipped to him from outside lest he be poisoned. It was a tough existence and made worse as he was taken back to Boston to testify in front of a federal grand jury. He spoke openly and at length about the criminal organizations around Boston especially ones that had been conspirators with Victoria Williams. He wasn't afraid to name names and bring up long forgotten crimes that he was a witness to, even giving key information that only a witness knew and that could be verified by checking the evidence they already had on hand. His time in front of the grand jury brought him heavy scrutiny as the acting US Attorney refused to let him get placed into protective custody by the US Marshals Service. The woman had a strong reason for doing it, she was actually one of the people who had been part of the criminal organization and was about to be brought down by Roland's testimony. The USA was unaware of her fate until the US Marshal for Massachusetts placed her under arrest while her superiors from Washington read the list of charges against her and escorted her out to her arraignment in court. Roland knew that she was going to go after him by any means necessary and ensured that the AUSAs and his attorney went at him hard and from every angle so that defense attorneys couldn't claim that he lied or that his past made him lie about what he was saying. Roland did well under pressure and openly admitted to being a criminal but he was naming names to clear his mind as he knew that he was going to be killed for his testimony. It was all that the AUSAs needed to ensure that the testimony was able to be used in court as it was done under imminent threat, there was no way around what he had just said. Roland never made it back to the jail as his car was rammed in the side after leaving the courthouse. The deputies who were escorting him were injured but lived, Roland though was badly hurt and as he came out of his fog he saw a man standing over him with a gun and telling him that he'd pay for being a rat. Roland said a final silent prayer to God, asking for forgiveness for his long history of sins as the man fired two shots into his head. Roland was dead at the scene with the man who crashed into the car and shot him being found within an hour based on the deputies knowing the man's voice and relaying his identity to fellow deputies and federal agents. He had a reason for going after Roland, he was one of the agents that Roland had ratted out to the grand juries that day. The deputy marshals took great pride in dragging the man before a federal court and seeing him face murder charges for what he did to Roland, earning both scorn and ridicule from the judge, deputies, and fellow agents inside the courtroom. The news about Roland's murder hit the family hard. For all of their troubles in the past and all of the issues Roland had caused those he had encountered, his sisters and brother still loved Roland. He was their brother- even if he was the embodiment of all that they hated, he was still their brother. John arranged for a quiet burial near their mother. The only people to attend Roland's funeral were his brother and sisters and their eldest children. Roland's daughters and Miles didn't attend, it was just too painful to them and even though he was gone they still harbored deep feelings of anger. With Roland's death came the cause for changes to start as he had planned them to, the cell block was in an uproar as Jeffries and Colby were ousted from their gangs and forced into a private hell for them as nobody wanted anything to do with them. The men who had been their most ardent supporters were beaten badly and forced to seek help from other at a steep cost, breaking up the groups further while solidifying the cell block under the newly created democracy. Those who didn't accept the new way of doing business in the cell block were cut off from any of the incoming perks while those who embraced it were rewarded with lower costs and a say in how things were run. The prison started to change for the better as word about the revolution and new democracy got around, with Reverend Brooks having an easier time with his sermons to the inmates while non-Christians left him alone and found common ground with him regarding non-theological issues such as social change and the need for stronger families. The reforms were echoed in other cell blocks then across the state as more and more people started to break apart the old, rigid system and embrace democracy and freedom of choice in their desolate home. Lives improved as the prisons embraced the changes. He hadn't meant to do it, but in his passing Roland had helped usher in a new system of change. He just wanted to have a clear conscience, yet, instead, his reforms took hold. It was the opposite of Roland Finn: ironically, it was something that John would have done himself had he been in prison. As the reforms were occurring, dozens of trials got underway. The most important was the trial of the disgraced federal agent who murdered Roland and hurt the escorting deputies. His actions were shown to be a systemic cover-up of misdeeds by numerous people from Victoria Williams to members of the legislature to members of Congress, with the man simply being the one to act against Roland directly. Roland's testimony before the grand jury was read into the record with the defense objecting, but his having been known to be facing certain death allowed its acceptance by the judge. Roland's words were matched with DNA and other forensic evidence making for clear cases of murder, assault, corruption, bribery, extortion. Roland had ensured that everyone targeted was going to be convicted, even going so far as to give exact times so records could be matched to plane tickets and flight manifests to prove some were in town to commit the crimes they were accused of committing instead of elsewhere. The agent was sentenced to death for murdering a federal witness. He was joined in prison by the USA and several key non-elected members of the state government. Governor Christian James hated to take the hit for keeping those people on as part of his government, but they had stellar backgrounds before Roland ratted them out and were the best at their jobs making it tough to get rid of them without a solid reason- and as Roland showed, they had ensured there wasn't one. Those who weren't tried for crimes saw their public lives under scrutiny. Multiple politicians had been forced out of office by an angry electorate while the media put pressure on the Congressmen to either resign or retire. In the end, only one resigned while two more instead opted to not run for re-election. Hannah's book was a hit when it was released in early March and formally saw her accepting a contract to write the two children's books soon after. After being put on a national bestseller list, the book was optioned for a movie with the family acting as advisers to the screenwriters and giving final approval to the script. The family created a production company to make the movie and smartly got a hefty piece of the gross revenue for the movie, with most of their shares going directly to help victims of violence. In the end, the movie was a massive hit and the next year earned BAFTA Film Awards and Academy Award nominations and awards alongside numerous lesser awards. The film won best picture and best director while losing out on best actor to the star of a period war movie. Hannah actually got credit for writing the screenplay alongside the writers so ended up winning two, "Oscars" that night. At the BAFTA Film Awards, Hannah caused a stir as her unknown connection to Roland made for a feeding frenzy with the paparazzi as it was seen as a slap in the face of the nobility to have a noble with a dead, drug addicted uncle. She ignored them and just smiled away as she walked the red carpet. She was more interested in saying hello to the various movie stars, screenwriters, and directors than talking about her uncle or about her title. The paparazzi conveniently ignored that the story was over two years old at that point and she happily pointed out that they had never taken offense to it before as it was common knowledge and wasn't hard to know the facts for any real reporter who had access to Google. The legitimate media laughed it off while Hannah walked away in triumph. All those paparazzi ended up doing was raise her profile and give her books a big increase in sales as people sought out the books written by the smart- mouthed noblewoman increasing the sales exponentially. Roland's unfortunate death made it into the movie with people taking a keen interest in his family's life. Calls for movies to be made about the Smiths, Sylvesters, and Finns were given, "Thank but no thanks" as the family chose to let their story lay untold as there were far too many people who were affected in a negative way by those who'd happily sue the family for their portrayal on film. There were dozens of people who did try to profit off the family's many stories but nothing ever came from their stories and most were either lies or exaggerations that didn't hold up under any kind of scrutiny from those who actually knew the family and those same stories weren't actually as interesting as the family's stories as told from the point of view of the family itself. The family chose to remember Roland for what he was, a troubled man who couldn't bring himself to admit the truth about himself. John felt horrible about Roland not confiding in him but not everyone can ask for help when they need it. In the end Roland atoned for his sins, he died a violent death but he gave his life to bring justice for those who escaped it and had done the most noble act of penance. He was the prodigal son, but he was still a Finn and one who was loved by his family until the end.