Fake Vader's Lockdown

Lockdown is about a kid that gets set up with murdering his partner. Getting sent to a super prison set deep underground, Furnace. Where the felons go after they are proven guilty in a biased court, shoved into a place he didn’t deserve to be. Alex’s only hope of living is escape, it’s what keeps him going after being set up by the silver eyed, black suited, superhuman guards. The story of Lockdown is easily read and has a strong original premise but is weakly executed through the lack of character building, a disappointing ending, and the many paths of a story that could be explored.
All you know is the protagonist is a burglar with a heart of gold, that regrets one moment that set him on a path of criminal choices. Then he’s in this super prison miles underground, surrounded by death and prison gangs and mad science. The guards have superhuman attributes, the dogs are balls of lab synthesized muscle without skin, not to mention the “doctors” of the prison look like they’re from WWII, with Darth-Vader like breathing apparatuses sown into their faces.
The fake Vader’s were a tool used to create suspense and were concreted well through use, but it was so convenient at the times they would come. I would like the book better if the author took more of the readers time explaining why the prison is so corrupt and terrifying, but he just skips over the whole mad science running the prison behind the scenes. Alex could have been exploring what the fake Vader's do to the prisoners they take, a great chapter to write in the novel would be him exploring the tunnels, looking for his cellmate that got taken. Dodging the loud, labored breathing of the fake Vader's, it would’ve build suspense, established the idea of what he was willing to risk for his friends, it could’ve helped him become a true