“. . .a client will often spend time with Brad Rouse, who is the expert in written narrative. . .One unexpected feature of these narratives is how much of the story hints at a rehabilitation that...calls back to a time when confinement was about reform and salvation . . .  put all the parts together, and the buoyant takeaway for any judge reading it is that maybe his job is already done. Nothing isolates one’s crime, and all the moral dereliction that comes with it, quite like a story in which the jail time, which hasn’t even started, already seems to be receding into the past.”