RCPA briefing
RCPA North America branch sent us this, this week:
Local investigators in the state of Texas reported a major incongruity at the start of the year. Rio Medina Correctional Center, a privately-run penitentiary on the outskirts of San Antonio, over the course of a month, was reporting an abnormally large amount of inmate deaths. The thing was, none of these deaths were submitted to the state of Texas; there are no death certificates in the records, and they also neglected to file any coroner's reports with the police. This didn't become RCPA jurisdiction until a Federal agent looked into it and discovered that these inmates were flat-out missing. No bodies, no signs of mass graves, and no reports of any escapes. These inmates, the Feds figure, were probably shipped out somewhere, and that's a bad sign.
As you might have heard, there's been a lot of controversy around the US Incarcerated Peoples' Rights Act. America's labor economy infamously lives on the cheap labor provided by its prisoners, especially for things like road maintenance and other infrastructure. The IPRA sought to change that; years of stalling and filibustering didn't stop it from being passed eventually. But the prisons that make all their money from that labor, well, it stands to reason they'd have to turn to some other form of income. RCPA North America believes that what's happened here is that the hundred-some inmates that were declared dead, were actually sold off somewhere as test subjects. To whom, we're not quite certain yet, but RCPA Operator Travaglia looked into some transportation logs - a boat took off from Houston, Texas, bound for Juncos, Puerto Rico, half a year ago, with an unfiled manifest. Problem is, RCPA is not aware of any major research labs existing on Puerto Rico.
Unfortunately, RCPA North America is already spread too thin of late; Branch Director Westmacott has his agents tied up looking after domestic pharma companies in the wake of yet another round of government-mandated vaccine tests, and the public outcry that'd happen if those weren't being monitored is too great for this organization to withstand. Which is, roughly, where your team comes in. We're being called in as substitutes. Operator Travaglia sent us all her notes - the transport logs and the dead-end she hit trying to figure out who paid off the prison - but all we can really do is send a couple of you down to Juncos and see if you can pick up the trail.
