PRI Chapter 37: $6.96 Million About to Arrive

A week later, the electric shock interrogation room was officially completed.

But the electric shock control equipment would take a few more days to arrive and be installed.

Lind had originally planned to use this time to find a hacker to help set up an overseas website, but he was worried that if someone traced back to the hacker, they might sell him out.

So he planned to handle production and sales himself.

Moreover, this wasn't difficult. The prison had recently received a batch of new prisoners, and when he looked through their files, he found one prisoner who happened to be arrested for cybercrime.

This little guy was only 18 years old, named Mike Heywood, a Canadian.

The reason he was in prison was because he and other hackers had launched DDoS attacks on Yahoo and Amazon, causing these websites to be down for several hours.

So after trial, he was quickly thrown into prison.

His sentence was two years.

As for the mastermind of their case, since he was only 15 years old, he was sentenced to only 8 months.

When Lind learned about this, he was overjoyed and hurriedly went to the prison block to check this young hacker's panel.

He found that his weakness was having an insatiable sweet tooth.

So Lind waved his hand grandly, had Cohen go to town to buy a bunch of sweets, and put them on the interrogation room table.

He then brought Mike over, keeping his eyes fixed on the high-calorie sweets.

He even thoughtfully cut open each sweet item and put it in front of his nose to let him smell it.

But no matter how much Mike craved them, he wasn't allowed to eat the sweets.

Under this test of willpower, in just 3 days, Mike's fear value reached maximum.

Seeing the timing was right, Lind immediately proposed using sweets as wages, suggesting Mike work for him building websites.

Mike agreed readily and that day ate 6 donuts, 3 cream cakes, and 2 buckets of popcorn.

Then he spent a day building the website, which Lind named "Electric Shock Devil Live Room."

When he came up with this name, he also planned to have someone dressed in a white coat, wearing glasses, with a 3-7 parted hairstyle serve as the main electric shock operator in the future.

America needed its own Mr. Yang too.

After establishing the website, Lind had the prison maintenance worker install the newly acquired hidden camera opposite the electric chair.

This thing was praised by everyone who used it.

Not only did it provide 360-degree viewing without blind spots, but it also had high-definition picture quality with color mode.

It was cheaper than a video camera, more controllable, and more convenient.

So Lind wished he could immediately draw dozens of them from the prize pool and distribute them throughout the prison.

However, this item was indeed worthy of being used as a reward by the system, as it was very hard to draw. Lind had only obtained one from the prize pool so far.

The same went for the tranquilizer spray can.

If he could have production lines for these things, Lind guaranteed that all prisons would come knocking on his door for orders the next day.

However, the electronic ankle monitor production line blueprint he currently had wasn't bad either. Although it wasn't anything exclusive, if he could make it, it would be extremely profitable.

So during this period, he had been looking for factories to purchase facilities.

But the hardest part about producing electronic ankle monitors wasn't technical issues, but legal ones.

Because electronic ankle monitors needed to pass qualification audits from the U.S. Department of Justice or state Department of Correctionss, and also had to comply with FCC (Federal Communications Commission) certification.

Besides these, Lind also had to purchase patents.

In America, any high-tech gadgets, or gadgets related to high technology, couldn't escape patents.

Electronic shackles were naturally among them.

Lind calculated an account. If he wanted to purchase the electronic ankle monitor patents, including positioning technology, casing, software, and hardware patents combined, the package price would be at least $3 million!

If he only purchased usage rights, he could choose to pay annual fees or take a percentage of sales revenue.

For annual fees, $100,000 to $150,000 per year would be sufficient.

For sales revenue sharing, it ranged from 5% to 15%.

According to statistics, an average of 2 million people in America were under community corrections supervision each year, of which only about 10%-15% needed electronic ankle monitors.

Therefore, America's annual production of electronic ankle monitors was around 200,000 sets.

This market had limits, so Border Prison couldn't blindly expand production lines, one would be sufficient.

According to the blueprint description, this semi-automatic production line would require 30 prisoners and could produce approximately 15,000 sets of electronic ankle monitors annually.

He estimated annual profits would be around $2 million.

So in Lind's view, paying annual fees was naturally more suitable.

It's just that he currently had no channels to purchase patents, or rather, he wasn't confident about bringing down the patent prices.

Fortunately, he had joined ACA certification, because the electronic ankle monitor patent company was called BI, which was a subsidiary of GEO Group, one of America's largest private prison companies.

ACA held annual conferences where all major private prisons would participate to discuss the new year's prison development directions and various matters.

Lind, as the owner of Border Prison, naturally also received an invitation for late February.

He would go to New York to attend the conference then, and would surely meet many bosses and definitely be able to handle the patent matters.

As for government certification, he naturally had to rely on Avery. Lind renewed their friendship fee.

$20,000.

It wasn't that Lind didn't have more money, but he was very clear that he couldn't give too much at once, otherwise Avery's appetite would be spoiled by him.

Raising a tiger was naturally something to boast about, but raising a tiger that became a threat would be bad.

However, although patents and certification couldn't be secured temporarily, the production line couldn't be delayed.

Lind visited many companies and finally negotiated prices for all the production line manufacturing equipment in advance, just waiting to pay and purchase.

But calculating this investment made him gasp.

It was much more expensive than the headphone production line, requiring $1.3 million.

During this period, many employees had been hired, and their wages were much higher than the original E-level guards. Adding various construction and renovation costs, he now had only $300,000 left on hand, enough only for a down payment.

If not for the money obtained from robbing the Iron Riders Gang boss before, Lind would still need to get a bank loan now.

"Damn, why does money keep getting less the more you use it!"

Lind sighed as he sat in his office, but couldn't help feeling somewhat fortunate.

Although he owed a lot of money, the prison's future was also bright!

As long as he got through this period, there would be a large income coming in.

Yes, he was talking about the prisoner funds that the American government approved for him, a total of $6.96 million.

This would be the largest amount he had seen since transmigrating.

According to Avery, the state Department of Corrections's preliminary review had already passed, and the materials had been submitted to the Federal Bureau of Prisons for review.

Of course, when the federal prison officials would finish their review was unknown, but no matter how ridiculous, it should be done by April.

Although it was 2 months slower than big companies like GEO and CCA, it was still quite fast.

After Lind sorted out all the matters at hand, he whistled.

Just as he was about to go to the shooting range to try the power of automatic rifles, Angelina suddenly knocked and entered the office.

"Boss, I received some very bad news."

This CIA little bitch's loyalty had finally passed 50 after daily high-intensity cosmetics feeding recently.

The effect of increased loyalty was obvious, that is, Angelina's subjective initiative was getting higher and higher.

Look, she didn't even need Lind to inquire, she came to find him proactively to discuss matters.

Lind looked up at Angelina, "What news?"

Angelina closed the door, came to the desk and said, "Boss, there are prisoners suing our prison for violating human rights."

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