PRI Chapter 59: Reward - Land Purchase Opportunity

After the government funds arrived in the account, the first thing Lind needed to do was fill some of the debt holes.

Such as the $1 million for purchasing the electronic ankle monitors production line, the $700,000 needed for the high-tech police baton production line, and the $400,000 previously owed to the bank.

However, although he spent money quickly, Lind also earned money fast.

During this period, by taking down gangs, he had obtained a total of $1.7 million. Even after paying back all debts and deducting this year's salaries for all guards, Border Prison's total assets would still have $6 million remaining.

Lind finally experienced the feeling of being wealthy.

Compared to his penniless state when he first transmigrated, it was like heaven and earth.

Just as Lind was fantasizing about what luxury toys to buy for himself, he received another piece of good news.

"Boss!" Angelina quickly walked into the room, looking happy, "Federal Prison Industries just called me, saying the electronic ankle monitors audit has passed, and we can proceed with production and sales."

"Excellent!" Lind snapped his fingers, extremely excited.

When he went to the ACA conference earlier, he had specifically discussed related matters with the GEO executive.

Since they needed Lind's Border Prison to help them handle the official inspection, they naturally gave the green light to the prison's other businesses.

They were even willing to help Border Prison quickly undertake government orders.

The only requirement was that Border Prison must produce high-end electronic ankle monitors to differentiate from their subsidiary BI company.

Lind understood this was an exchange of interests.

For GEO, their prisons mainly made money through volume, producing hundreds of thousands of low-end electronic ankle monitors annually. If Border Prison joined the competition, it would affect their existing production lines.

High-end electronic ankle monitors had lower demand, only tens of thousands annually, but required high technical content.

Since GEO couldn't handle everything alone anyway, giving the excess orders to Border Prison wasn't impossible.

However, this presented quite a challenge for Lind. Originally, according to his plan, producing low-end electronic ankle monitors would yield an annual output of 15,000 units with $2 million profit.

Now, switching to high-end electronic ankle monitors, annual output could only reach 10,000 units.

However, profits more than doubled, reaching $5 million annually but producing high-end electronic ankle monitors required prisoners to have better technical abilities.

Currently, at most only 5 people in the prison met the requirements.

He still needed 25 more to reach 30 skilled workers.

Of course, Lind could hire workers from outside, but hiring external workers cost much more than using prisoners.

As a qualified capitalist, he naturally couldn't willingly give money away.

Therefore, he now especially desired Ottavio's case to be concluded quickly to help him complete the mission.

Speaking of Ottavio's case, with the lawyer's help, they had resubmitted evidence, and the court would likely soon initiate the "motion to vacate judgment" procedure.

Compared to the anxious Lind, Ottavio himself was quite stable. Perhaps out of gratitude, he was the most active performer in the factory every day.

He even faced exclusion from other prisoners due to his excellent work performance.

After all, overachievers were never well-received.

Fortunately, Evan had a good relationship with him and constantly helped him.

Plus, Lind had instructed the guards, so he hadn't been bullied.

Rather, ever since the prisoner who bullied Ottavio was taken to Interrogation Room No. 1 for torture, no prisoner dared to provoke Ottavio anymore.

Shortly after Federal Prison Industries called, related order materials were also faxed to the prison.

After Lind signed his name on the contract, he handed it to Angelina.

Once the female secretary left the office swaying her hips, Lind eagerly opened the system panel.

Indeed, the system panel had received an update.

[Border Prison (BP)]

[Level: F]

[Staff: 19 people]

[Prisoners: 212 people (150 minor offenders, 62 major offenders)]

[Profit Value: $10.76 million/year]

[Deterrence Value: 91]

[Facilities: 6 administrators]

The prison now had 12 guards total, including 9 C-level guards and 4 D-level guards.

Lind still had 3 D-level guards in hand.

However, he didn't need so many people temporarily. He planned to expand the guard force when the prison reached 300 people.

After several transfers, Border Prison's prisoner count had finally exceeded 200.

With more people, friction naturally became unavoidable.

Especially since this was close to Mexico with numerous gangs, the prisoners in the prison inevitably formed 3 major factions.

The white gang, Mexican gang, and black gang respectively.

These three factions created small problems daily.

Such as fighting over queue positions, brawling over toothpaste collisions, or wrestling because someone bumped someone's butt in the bathroom.

Overall, no major troubles, but constant minor ones.

The groups were like kindergarten children fighting over toys.

Even Lind often found himself laughing in exasperation when dealing with problems between prisoners.

Fortunately, under the strict supervision of various C-level guards, these prisoners hadn't caused any real trouble but besides this, Lind had other worries.

Such as the fluctuating deterrence value growth rate.

Theoretically, when prisoners reached maximum fear value, they would steadily provide more deterrence value for Lind but after actual testing, he discovered that those prisoners with incomplete fear values actually provided more deterrence value.

Moreover, once guards reached maximum loyalty, they wouldn't continue increasing deterrence value.

So Lind found that the more maxed-out personnel in the prison, the less deterrence value he could obtain.

To improve acquisition efficiency, the best solution was to expand the prison scale and continuously receive new prisoners.

Obviously, the system setting required Lind not to be content with the status quo.

Otherwise, just maintaining a small prison, he would eventually face a situation with no deterrence value to use.

However, this aligned with his own envisioned development direction. After all, he had many ideas about prisons that hadn't been realized yet, so how could he give up halfway!

So during this time, he had been urging Avery to send new criminals over.

After understanding deterrence value, Lind assigned Hook Ang and Joe Locke as administrators in the kitchen and medical room respectively in the facilities interface.

The effects were:

[Kitchen (Hook): Food preparation speed +20%, food poisoning effect -10%]

[Medical Room (Joe): Medication effect +10%, injury deterioration probability -10%]

After completing these operations, Lind finally looked at the most crucial data.

Profit value.

After reaching 10 million, the system mission was finally successfully completed.

[Mission: Profit value exceeds 10 million, Reward: Land purchase opportunity]

[Mission completed]

[Land purchase opportunity obtained]

Lind raised his eyebrows and opened the drawer, but didn't see any reward.

"Strange, what does purchase opportunity mean?"

While pondering, there was suddenly a knock at the door, and Angelina walked in again.

"Boss, someone claiming to be a friend of Old Edward delivered a letter for you."

"Old Edward's friend?" Lind frowned in confusion, taking the envelope from his secretary.

He slowly opened the envelope and extracted white letter paper from inside.

Unfolding it, he found only one name written on the paper.

"David Durst?"

Lind was puzzled. Who was this?

Angelina beside him slightly narrowed her eyes after seeing it and reminded, "Boss, if I'm not mistaken, this person is a state government commissioner."

"State government commissioner?" Lind asked casually, "In charge of what?"

"Land. He's the land commissioner promoted by Bush Jr."

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