Inmate 1

In the shadowed corridors of Westgate University, Professor Alistair Finch launches "Project New Start," a radical obedience experiment designed to rehabilitate society's outcasts. Told in the immersive, journalistic style of Joe McGinniss, this gripping psychological thriller follows Elias Voss, a long-rejected drifter designated as INMATE 1, whose transformation under the microscope of power turns a controlled study into a devastating bloody tragedy. When a chilling series of murders connects back to the experiment, the lines between science, cruelty, and justice blur, revealing that behind every serial act of violence lies a soul the world refused to accept.