It was reported that the "Debtor" went mad for half an hour before finally returning to calm under the "soothing" measures of the mechanical prison guards.
The cost was another round of depletion of his Life Energy; he became quiet and his reactions seemed half a beat slower.
Owl received the information transmitted back by the broadcasting team and couldn't help worrying about the current situation of the prison. It didn't seem to be a surgery without any side effects. Compared to a frontal lobotomy, the only difference was the lesser degree of the side effects, barely enough to consider it a slight improvement.
He now began to suspect that the inmates on Prison Planet were just the first batch of guinea pigs for the Judge, an artificial intelligence that would eventually promote and apply this procedure to everyone—just like those research teams that developed the frontal lobotomy and won awards for it.