PRI Chapter 38: Good Deeds Are Rewarded, Evil Deeds Are Punished!

"Sue us?" Lind said in surprise, "What human rights of theirs have we violated?"

Angelina didn't speak, just stared at Lind with a look that said "are you kidding me."

Even with Lind's thick skin, he couldn't withstand such a direct gaze. He coughed twice and said, "Alright, I was just trying to make them work hard so they could become useful people when they return to society. Who in the prison doesn't understand my good intentions?"

"So what's his name?"

"I don't know." Angelina shook her head, "I just received this news. A prisoner has hired a lawyer and is about to file an appeal."

"Fine, I understand. Help me call Andy over."

"Click, click, click!" Angelina left in her red-soled high heels.

Not long after, Andy Cock knocked and entered, "Warden, you called for me."

"Sit down." Lind gestured for him to sit.

As soon as Andy's bottom touched the sofa, Lind asked, "What's been happening in the prison recently?"

Andy immediately stood straight and reported methodically, "Recently, the Mexicans and the Barr Gang had an argument over the dining order in the cafeteria. We intervened and punished each group with sleeping on the floor for 3 days and deducted $10 from their wages."

"Prisoner Andrew accidentally jammed the assembly line equipment while working this week. We've arranged for a maintenance worker to repair it. Currently, production is 500 units short of the target, and we're having them work overtime to complete it."

"During yard time on Monday, a prisoner attempted to escape through the wire fence. He was shot down with a tranquilizer gun by the watchtower guard and sent to solitary confinement."

"Prisoner West attempted to rape another prisoner with soap in the bathroom the day before yesterday. He was stopped by Carter and has been sent to solitary confinement."

"Prisoner Watson stuffed toothpaste into his rectum in his cell last night and had an accident where he couldn't remove it himself. Guards sent him to the medical room, and I heard they only retrieved the toothpaste tube but not the cap."

Even though he had been warden for some time, Lind still found these absurd incidents hard to handle.

This was truly Texas, where you could choose not to live, but you couldn't be without entertainment.

Even though the prison was managed very strictly, these prisoners could still create all sorts of bizarre antics.

This wasn't the first time Lind had heard of prisoners ending up in the medical room because they stuffed things into their rectums.

However, normal people would at most stuff a toothbrush, but this Watson fellow actually stuffed toothpaste directly.

It seemed his body had been developed quite extensively, as he didn't even feel pain anymore.

However, what Lind wanted to hear wasn't these trivial matters. He tapped the table and continued asking Andy, "Do prisoners frequently make outgoing calls? Are there any guys that seem unusual to you?"

In Border Prison, to obtain visitation rights and meet with family and friends, prisoners first had to work hard and accumulate working hours.

After reaching a certain number of working hours, they would use their wages to buy visitation vouchers, allowing their families to apply for prison visits.

Making phone calls also required paying for time, 20 cents for within 10 minutes, with prices doubling for calls over 10 minutes.

This was to prevent some criminals from making hour-long calls, being all lovey-dovey and refusing to leave, wasting everyone's time.

In Lind's view, once you're in prison, you should work well. Your wife at home probably has another man anyway, so why keep bothering them!

If they discovered they were being cuckolded, they would inevitably get angry.

Getting angry would lead to arguments, arguments would lead to fights, and after fights, solitary confinement would be overcrowded.

Then who would do the work, and who would compensate Lind for the lost labor!

That was all pure profit!

Anyway, Lind never overestimated the moral standards of Americans, especially the wives of these criminals.

After hearing Lind's inquiry, Andy was slightly stunned, his expression somewhat tense.

Although he didn't know why the warden was asking this, Andy had long learned that the warden never asked questions without purpose.

So he quickly recalled the recent list of frequent callers in his mind.

Finally, he gave a name.

"Ottavio Miller."

"Who is he?" Lind didn't have a deep impression of this prisoner.

"Warden, he's from the third batch of prisoners, just arrived here two weeks ago." Andy truthfully reported what he knew about the situation.

"He's a German-American, supposedly imprisoned for construction embezzlement. He's relatively honest and works very hard. However, in recent days, he makes phone calls every day, and each time only for 20 minutes."

Upon hearing this news, Lind immediately locked onto the target.

"Where is he now?"

"He's currently in the factory. He's been working overtime lately, seems like he doesn't have enough for bed fees."

Making phone calls every day meant spending all his wages on phone bills, so naturally he couldn't afford a bed.

Without hesitation, Lind had Andy take him to the factory to find this Ottavio Miller.

Fifteen minutes later, the two saw him on the second floor of the factory.

Natural brown curly hair, very pale skin, with patches of brown spots visible on his face, plus a stick-thin figure. One glance was enough to know this person had definitely been white-collar before.

However, what impressed Lind most wasn't his appearance.

It was his profile information.

[Ottavio Miller]

[Crimes: United colleagues, sought benefits for workers, offended leadership]

[Evil rating: 5 (Level F)]

[Fear value: 30]

[Weakness: Two children]

"Ah, this."

This was the first time Lind had seen such a crime.

Seeking benefits for bottom-level workers, what kind of crime was this?

If this were his previous life, knowing about such deeds, he would have called the person "comrade" at the very least!

Damn, this could only mean that American capitalist society was terminally ill.

Not to mention distant examples, after the 9/11 incident in 2001, over 3,000 emergency rescue personnel who rushed into the World Trade Center towers died from inhaling asbestos.

Yet for many of them, the government still refused to acknowledge that their illnesses were related to the 9/11 incident and wouldn't allow compensation.

Moreover, after 9/11, to resume work quickly, then-EPA Administrator Whitman confidently stated, "The air quality around ground zero is good, with no health threats whatsoever."

But in reality, 400,000 people were affected to varying degrees by harmful dust.

These people's illnesses broke out successively over 20 years, but the government turned a blind eye.

So to survive in a place like America, you had to abandon the weaknesses of humanity and lower your moral standards to the minimum.

Otherwise, when everyone above and below was corrupt, you'd be the only one acting noble and pretentious.

If they didn't target you, who would they target?

But this wasn't a reason for someone like Ottavio Miller to be imprisoned, at least Lind didn't think so.

Even if some leader didn't like him, found him an eyesore, and felt he was hindering money-making.

They could have just fired him, or at worst, blacklisted him from the industry.

How did they go to such great lengths to get this guy into prison?

This wasn't just about ruining his reputation, they wanted his life!

Lind felt this was very wrong. Although he was a capitalist who profited by exploiting prisoners, before becoming a capitalist, he was still human.

Perhaps influenced by his previous life, he still retained some simple values.

Such as evil deeds being punished, good deeds being rewarded.

Just as Lind had this thought.

[Sudden Challenge: You have discovered an innocent person in your prison. You feel this goes against the prison's philosophy. The prison should bring good fortune to kind people and misfortune to evil people!]

[Help Ottavio Miller clear his name and get Gabe Jensen imprisoned. Reward: Modular Water Storage Facility Blueprint]

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