The Fog Prison Protocols

In a near-future high-security prison built on a fog-shrouded island between two nations haunted by a colonial past, a translator receives notice that his half-brother, a death-row inmate, has died mysteriously before execution. Drawn into a labyrinth of state-sanctioned experiments, he discovers a program that extracts and transplants consciousness, offering criminals a fabricated new life. But as the line between memory and reality blurs, he must confront an unsettling truth: society's progress has not reduced crime; it has merely perfected its disguise.