Well each snapshot is a sort of short story emphasizing the humanity of criminals in a situation where their humanity is shown as being forgotten. It leads up t

Well each snapshot is a sort of short story emphasizing the humanity of criminals in a situation where their humanity is shown as being forgotten. It leads up to the final story where the author is indicating he has moved on to be a public defender. It strikes me as a sort of justification for having resources available for the defense of the indicted, and the author seems to not want to paint the police badly either.