PRI Chapter 43: Hidden Rules and the New Profession of Interrogator

"Honestly, I didn't expect your judo throwing techniques to be so impressive."

The next day, in the office.

After accepting Sheriff House's invitation and attending the police chief's family dinner, Lind had just returned from Val Verde County and looked at Angelina with amazement.

In reality, he was laughing secretly to himself. Had this little bitch finally stopped pretending?

Planning to show her true face?

Although he hadn't done it intentionally yesterday, he had left this woman hanging for a whole day.

From her behavior, she was probably quite displeased.

However, Angelina looked completely calm, "I just practiced some self-defense techniques. My mother taught me from a young age not to let men bully me."

Not to let men bully her, but she could make men rise and fall, right.

Lind glanced at her sensual teacher outfit and sexy black-framed glasses, along with the pink blush and light freckles on her cheeks, feeling his body temperature spike instantly.

Damn, this little bitch was getting better and better at catering to his preferences but he absolutely couldn't give in.

Lind was very clear that if he was the first to show a lustful side, he would be thoroughly manipulated by this woman.

Although Angelina was doing this only for her mission and wouldn't betray Lind's interests but what if she wanted to leave after completing the mission?

How could Lind let the A-grade character he had finally extracted escape!

So before her loyalty reached maximum, he absolutely couldn't surrender to Angelina's black stockings!

He was just that kind of tough man.

So to divert his attention, Lind took out his notebook and said, "I thought about it yesterday and plan to implement a set of hidden sentence reduction rules in the prison, based on that slogan I mentioned to you before."

In America, the power to reduce prisoners' sentences was concentrated in courts, parole boards, or related judicial institutions.

Whether public or private prisons, neither had the authority to directly reduce prisoners' sentences but this didn't mean prisons couldn't do anything.

Because according to federal law and some state laws, prisoners were allowed to shorten their sentences for good behavior, with federal and private prisons able to reduce sentences by up to 54 days per year.

So as long as prisoners behaved well, Lind could help them submit good behavior records to obtain sentence reductions.

Of course, this was only temporary.

Once Lind had contact with judicial agencies in the future, this rule would have much more flexibility.

"I've established 15 rules." Lind handed the notebook to Angelina.

Angelina read through the text while listening to him say, "It covers many aspects. After you finish reading today, you can help me supplement it."

"But note that the sentence reduction rules apply to everyone, it's just that minor offenders have a lower difficulty in obtaining them."

"Understood." Angelina nodded.

After roughly reading through it, she already understood Lind's meaning.

The purpose of these rules was to let minor offenders leave prison faster, so serious offenders weren't in a fair position from the start.

But this was also reasonable. After all, some were just petty thieves while others were murderous maniacs.

They couldn't both get sentence reductions for doing the same things.

According to the regulations, prisoners had a fixed performance score of 10 points each month.

If the following bad behaviors involving attitude, work, and life occurred during the month, performance points would be deducted.

Such as harming others, insulting guards, damaging prison property, skipping work, etc.

These performance scores were calculated monthly, and finally at the end of each quarter, the top three with the highest performance scores would receive sentence reductions.

Of course, this was for minor offenders.

If they were serious offenders, the initial monthly performance score was 8 points.

At the same time, the definition of various bad behaviors was also stricter.

After reading, Angelina seriously doubted whether those serious offenders could get sentence reduction opportunities.

This was simply an impossible mission.

Look at these rules: making outstanding contributions to prison production, creating additional benefits for the prison.

Where were these prisoners? They were clearly more like high-difficulty requirements given by leaders when subordinates asked for promotions.

Damn, Angelina couldn't help but think of her own leader, who seemed to have said similar things.

Fortunately, she didn't need to follow these prisoners' sentence reduction rules, so she put away the notebook without hesitation.

Then Lind asked, "Any news on Gabe Jensen?"

"Yes, boss."

Angelina had just received the news not long ago and replied, "Gabe Jensen is one of the executive vice presidents of BGE Civil Engineering Company, 48 years old this year."

"He's responsible for the company's land development projects and water system renovation projects, and is Ottavio Miller's direct supervisor."

"A year ago, when BGE was helping the local government with land renovation in California, someone discovered internal embezzlement of project funds and sued in court."

"After investigation, the court found that not only did BGE company internally embezzle project funds, but someone also used interns to create proposals and adopted inferior design drawings to fool clients in order to save expenses."

"Police subsequently arrested the intern who created the proposals, and learned from his testimony that all these things were done under Ottavio's instructions."

"So Ottavio was quickly sentenced by the court and sent to prison."

"But Ottavio has never accepted this, demanding appeals and often suing prisons for human rights violations."

"After being transferred through several prisons, the court finally sent him to us."

Lind suddenly understood. No wonder this guy's methods were so skilled and experienced.

He was an old complainer.

"Hmm, so actually all these things were orchestrated by Gabe Jensen, right."

Hearing Lind's seemingly questioning but actually affirmative words, Angelina was somewhat confused, "How do you know Ottavio is innocent?"

"Secret." Lind smiled and instructed, "Have the detective continue digging deeper. I want to know where that intern is, what he's doing, and what his weaknesses are."

"Alright." Angelina was already almost used to her boss's such capricious demands.

Honestly, only she could do this secretary job.

Anyone else would have resigned long ago!

After cursing a few times in her heart, the secretary lady turned and left.

Soon after, Cohen knocked and walked in.

"Sit."

Lind greeted him, then looked at his panel.

[Cohen Snow]

[Identity: Guard/Interrogator]

[Rating: 35 (Level C)]

[Loyalty: 100 (Never betray, always obey)]

[Skills: Intermediate Grappling, Intermediate Marksmanship, Intermediate Basketball, Advanced Interrogation]

When an employee's loyalty reached maximum, they would gain a new profession or new trait.

Cohen had unlocked a new profession this time: Interrogator.

[Interrogator: When conducting interrogation work, interrogation effectiveness +50%, prisoner fear value increase rate +30%]

In addition, his interrogation skill directly upgraded from basic to advanced.

This made Cohen suddenly become the fourth most important person in the prison.

The second and third were James and Angelina respectively.

The first was naturally Lind himself.

Looking at this young man who had proven himself, Lind said, "I'm glad you completed the promotion task. From now on, you'll become the head guard and manage the interrogation room. Do you have confidence to complete the prison's tasks well?"

"Yes!" Cohen answered briefly and powerfully.

"Very good."

Lind nodded with satisfaction, "Don't worry, your salary will rise accordingly."

"Thank you, Warden!"

"Alright, bring Ottavio Miller to the interrogation room later. I have some questions I want to ask him."

"Understood!"

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