if you have a small prison you can have it on 1 hour but with larger amounts and bigger prison 2 hours is smarter to give all a chance to eat. The prisoner count has increased from 150 to 200, so most of the excess has been mopped up. The lifeblood of your prison, prisoners are the criminals and scumbags you are tasked with containing and maintaining. I think that should be sufficient. Either way, you have too many for your current. (Previous fastest speed was 2x) - The Deployment view is now unlocked by the Chief. #3. you can't set shorter then 1 hour blocks, so that's what you got to work with. #13. JohnnyNoArms Aug 27, 2016 @ 6:26am. Ususally, I would just sit there puzzled. All food provided for prisoners is prepared by your cooks, and/or prisoners if using prison labour. 1 Cooker is 33/20/10ish. Just like with the breakfast, the time is well matched with the requirements of prisoners. Prisoners milling around in a mixed security yard. 1 Laundry machine can service 4 baskets. Guards are the primary and most important security staff available to hire. To do this you will have to designate the room as "Staff Only" aswell and you need to place the folowing things in it: A Serving Table, A Table with some Benches and a Sink. 8mm Solutions Jun 28, 2015 @ 10:19am. I would suggest seeing the supermax "path" solves it. Feb 22, 2017 @ 6:48am. Prisoner assigned is for prison labout jobs you don't have prisoners working in the kitchen. cookers, cooks and fridges do i need to feed X inmates?All 15 of my prison's doctors stay at the staff infirmary (not marked as staff-only, but all the paths to it are, probably caused some sort of issue for me before) and I don't remember them even idly visiting the prisoner one. 6 Cooks, 0. 1000+ prisoners, 100+ guards, 100+ other staff, the guards eat, but only if there's at least 10 serving tables, but no one else eats. A Bakery is a room where prisoners with experience in cooking or customer service can bake bread, cakes and cupcakes and sell them to Civilian Customers. Continue reading to be able to ensure that prisoners in your prison don. Although this isn't answering your direct question about how much mail per person arrives, I think that even 35 mail delivery people can be way too few if your "Work/Free Time" is scarce for a prison of that size. Using the facilities provided to you the only restriction is your mind. A Restaurant is a room where prisoners with experience in cooking or customer service can prepare and serve food to Civilian Customers. Jet City Gambler May 4, 2016 @ 7:32pm. With Update 27, Introversion think they’ve fixed it. Each prisoner has the same basic needs, a name, a personality. Rokk Aug 21, 2017 @ 4:15pm. I've searched multiple Forums and haven't found a solution yet. Do you have enough sinks (with water), have you time planned where your cooks. I usually use way less of everything! Currently in my latest 400 prisoner prison: 66 guards, 18 dogs, 10 armed, 10 janitors, 3 gardeners, 36cooks and 20 workmen. As for your Laundry room, as long as it's 80m² inside (e. • 4 yr. What ratio of guards to prisoners do you have in your prisons usually? I have a prison with 268 prisoners and 45 guards, so that comes out to 5. if you have two equal shifts (med and max, 88 each at maximum) that eat with a 1hour gap 3 times per day (high meals high quantity) the ratio is actually 9 cookers, 11 cooks, 18 fridges, 4 sinks, 1 bin. By: murgh. My prison consists of nearly 200, how many chefs would I need per 50/100 prisoners? thanksAs of Alpha 11, a hearse will come to your prison, and the dead will be taken away for a proper burial. BTW i did have a kitchen & dinning room for each 80 man cell block but im playing islands and im thinking of having one centralised kitchen. • 4 yr. Is there a ratio based on cooks to prisoners? If I have 100 prisoners how many cooks/cookers/freezers/sinks/serving tables/tables/benches do I need? Right now I have. Todos os direitos reservados. Preferably 1 chef for every cooker. Prison Architect is an alpha still, and one of the big things I have noticed is that sometimes, things like this get stuck. Todas las marcas registradas pertenecen a sus respectivos dueños en EE. etc. MekaDovah Nov 18, 2019 @ 5:45am. Building a Prison is the aim of the game and where the premise of Prison Architect is set. I've been following the wiki's model of 1 serving table for up to 80 prisoners, 4 cookers per serving table, 2 cookers per fridge, and 2 cooks per cooker. Is there a ratio based on cooks to prisoners? If I have 100 prisoners how many cooks/cookers/freezers/sinks/serving tables/tables/benches do I need? Right now I have. 10 cookers can feed 400 prisoners with a food quality of varied/varied and two meals per day. Prison Architect “no canteens accessible by this cell” is usually caused by security risks and you need to address them at the earliest opportunity. 956 prisoners to each guard. In small scale prisons you need only on kitchen and one. I started a new prison and for some reason the cooks just aren't producing enough food for everyone. How many prisoners do you have. But everyone's needs are satisfied with 6 bacon to spare, so it's still mission accomplished in my book. They are in prison for a large number of (usually) heinous crimes. 6. How many cooks do you usually have? In the same prison of 268 inmates I have 10 cooks, and 3 different kitchens. 956 prisoners to each guard. Anyways, I guess you know how to deal with it now so let's end this here lol. 1. Jun 11, 2013 @ 6:07am. So after many hours of trying solutions, these what I found out, that might help fix the problem: If you have several kitchens, the staff canteen must be next to the main kitchen (main kitchen is the one where the most cooks are) Cooks usually clean trays after prisoners had breakfast/lunch/dinner, this applies to staff trays as well. Per page: 15 30 50. On medium food amount a 4 prisoners need 4 meals, each cooker can cook 20 meals, and each cooker can hold 40 food, 1 sink will be good enough for 40 plates if the meals have to be served every 5 hours, u can fit a 40 man kitchen in 2 by 9 or 3 by 6 area. Prison Architect. 1 Serving Table is 80/40/25ish for low/med/high. This is how the game is codded: put something to the delivery boxes > send to prison > unpack > tell the staff to move to specific room > grabbed by prisoner. One per cellblock or big room should be enough. I have one prison with 2600 prisonners, bearely no need issues aside from food, I found that I need about 250 cooks per 1000 prisonners and a HUGE kitchen, I am working on upgrading them. Add another serving table in the canteen. With that info, 1 fridge for 2. Prison Architect > General Discussions > Topic Details. I go with 1. So, if you only have one prisoner in a large gulag dorm, the quality might be too high for an offending prisoner to be moved there. it assumes 1 prisoner eats one serving. So roughly 20-30. Prisoners milling around in a mixed security yard. Do I have too many guards? I usually have some k9 units patroling heavy traffic areas, and I usually keep 2-4 armed guards in my heavy max area. Cooks will place food at the serving table once they are fully cooked. 8 cooks, 8 stoves, 8 fridge. 2 tiles more per prisoner = 16 tiles for 8 prisoners --> that's the same as a 4x4 communal shower room, which isn't unreasonable for 8 naked prisoners trying to shower without stabbing each other lol. #1. They can also be gang members. Entities are the people who appear in your prison – from the prisoners themselves, to guards, staff and special people who come with call-outs or are placed using Lua scripts. You can have 1 prisoner working in the Cleaning Cupboard for every 4 square metres of space, up to a maximum of 100 prisoners per room (at a room size of 400 squares or more). Recently, my prisoners have been starving to death. The Parole Room is where prisoners go to be judged on whether or not they can be released on parole. There are 20 cooks, 16 fridges, 12 cookers. Per page: 15 30 50. 0 instead. Add bookmark. Prisoners milling around in a mixed security yard. Trixi Oct 10, 2015 @ 3:10pm. The prisoner's age: the younger the prisoner is, the more likely they are to re-offend; this also means that the percentage will gradually lower on its own as the prisoner spends years inside your prison. For Prison Architect on the PlayStation 4, FAQ by barticle. Lower the food variety so your cooks can prepare food faster. This caused the 6 prisoners in the prisoner infirmary to sit there almost dead for many days, which caused a humongous. I have found 15 cookers, 4 sinks, 25 cooks and around 10 fridges (although the last number varies more then it seems it should) per 100 prisioners is a good rule of thumb. They can be male or female depending on the prison you are working. I believe it goes 6, 12, 24 squares per prisoner, plus bonuses for windows, TVs, etc. Lots of info about how the game works there. Four tiles per prisoner. . Jun 14, 2022 @ 2:51am How many innmates per cook?. 10 cooks + prisoners helping them, only one kitchen. From The Prison Architects wiki: 1 basket can service 16 inmate cells. And then hiering only two cooks per kitchen. The cooks have a direct way from the kitchen to the canteen and the path to the road is also open. Yes, it works. Originally posted by jasonharris2: Originally posted by Gojak_v3: I have three canteen/kitchen and like 30 cooks for a 300+ prisoner prison. lissa_981 Jan 9, 2015 @ 6:02am. Cooks not Cooking. All Discussions. i have 1 serving table per 20 prisoners but most food trays lying on the ground: over 9000 food trays in my prison. Showing 1 - 14 of 14 comments. true. Depends on your meal quantities. Is there a ratio based on cooks to prisoners? If I have 100 prisoners how many cooks/cookers/freezers/sinks/serving tables/tables/benches do I need? Right now I have. 15 guards, 150 prisoners, 4 dog handlers. Ranos Dec 2, 2014 @ 9:13am. Farmer is responsible for teaching the Farm Work Safety program, which is required in order for prisoners to start working in farming fields, vegetable allotments or fruit orchards (Prison labour), unless they have Green Thumbs reputation. Due to the corporate taxes of 30%, you will only receive $840 of the $1,200 that you would expect. tl;dr: they stay still for seven days until they die, without counting as "deaths in custody". you can't set shorter then 1 hour blocks, so that's what you got to work with. Todos los derechos reservados. Low security: around 0,3 guards each prisoner. Kitchen staff/equipment to prisoner and seating/serving table ratio is correct. for the purposes of the grant, however, simply assigning them. 5 cooks per cooker, allows for the dishes to be done and food to be gathered without impacting cooking rate. It's a combination of the following: Fearless making suppression using Armed guards or Snipers not work to control their violence. I tried. 956 prisoners to each guard. Originally posted by BSNB: Is there a ratio based on cooks to prisoners? If I have 100 prisoners how many cooks/cookers/freezers/sinks/serving tables/tables/benches do I need? Right now I have. They are in prison for a large number of (usually) heinous crimes. So, yeah, the AI is absolutely helpless in scenarios where they need to take care of more than 100 or 200 prisoners, need to walk longer paths and got more complex tasks. 956 prisoners to each guard. May 3, 2014 @ 2:22am Sounds like you need a lot more Cookers, and 1:1 ratio of Cooks to Cookers (-1 Cook for each prisoner working in your kitchens). #3. Note that with your initial eight workmen (for $100 per day each) and no other expenses, your daily cashflow will be positive in the beginning due to the $2,000 federal fund that you are receiving every day. Is there a ratio based on cooks to prisoners? If I have 100 prisoners how many cooks/cookers/freezers/sinks/serving tables/tables/benches do I need? Right now I have. my prison is basically starving 90 % of my inmates are in the infirmary My Cooks are not cooking at. Prison Architect > General Discussions > Topic Details. I have at least 30 individual cells but the number still says 14. U. 5 Cookers with 5 Fridges and at least 5 cooks depending on distance to delivery area and canteen. they start making food too late or too early and they dont make a lot food,. I have two questions, 1. Canteen tables are 8 prisoners per table so a 80 prisoner canteen fits into a 14. A Screenshot of Prison Architect. By: MisterSpock. Put a radiator in every cell of your 40-cell prison, and watch the temperature rocket over 86F. When having less than 200 prisoners, the payment is reduced proportionately (actually being $5 per prisoner and day, for a maximum of 200 prisoners). 45 stoves need 22. Giving me 4 canteens and as many needed small kitchens for. I find it helps to put everything they need in the canteen -- phones, bathrooms, showers, prayer mats, radios, exercise benches, etc. Prisoner B (Med Sec) is in Permanent Punishment - a guard will bring him a small portion of food at 8am. So, I think they are not to be cured still. Todas las marcas registradas pertenecen a sus respectivos dueños en EE. Y2DAZZ. Staff Wages - The cost of your general staff, with janitors and gardeners costing $50 per day as-well as your doctors and cooks with wages of $100 per day. Date. A good rule of thumb is: 1-2-4-64. if you have a small prison you can have it on 1 hour but with larger amounts and bigger prison 2 hours is smarter to give all a chance to eat. I believe it goes 6, 12, 24 squares per prisoner, plus bonuses for windows, TVs, etc. Depends on your meal quantities. Gojak_v3 Jul 11, 2017 @ 11:09am. Is there a ratio based on cooks to prisoners? If I have 100 prisoners how many cooks/cookers/freezers/sinks/serving tables/tables/benches do I need? Right now I have. In the upper right corner of the screen the number of current prisoners is displayed / the number of max prisoners your prison can handle. The goal of the game is for players to simulate designing, building, and running a prison according to their tastes. Prisoner D (Max Sec) gets food from a guard at 10am. Sparda. The kitchen does work, but it doesn't cook all the food requested by canteen and doesn't work half the way it is made. #10. Escaping prisoners are given no such warnings. They have to feed 38 prisoners and they have something like 7-8 cookers and 3 fridges. A Screenshot of Prison Architect. up to +90% if very young (18-20 years old) from 21 years old it diminishes by 2% for each year older (+80% at 25 years old, +30% at 50 years old)Showing 1 - 7 of 7 comments. Hire more cooks. 956 prisoners to each guard. #3. Building a Prison is the aim of the game and where the premise of Prison Architect is set. Do I have too many guards? I usually have some k9 units patroling heavy traffic areas, and I usually keep 2-4 armed guards in my heavy max area. Do I have too many guards? I usually have some k9 units patroling heavy traffic areas, and I usually keep 2-4 armed guards in my heavy max area. So, for example a 48-square dorm, you can only fit 12 inmates (or 6 bunks) in. And where the cooks should deliver food. 1 sink per 50 prisoners. Each shower head can service 4 prisoners and i suggest you don't build a central shower for. * Additionally, there should be one sink per serving table, and one cook per sink. I usually have around 1/3. 956 prisoners to each guard. Hey guys, a while ago I launched a website as an alternative for the prison architect google sheet and I just wanted to announce that I just finished it! All the sections now include the power calculations. I have plenty of medium level prisoners working in my kitchens so my 10 cooks aren't doing. 240m 2 max size. Any more cookers per freezer or sink, or too few cooks, and the cooks become stupid. Work, education, parole, canteen, visitation, library, and so on. Ingredients arrive in a delivery truck and then are transferred from the deliveries to the fridges by the cooks. In a 500 cell prison, I usually set 6 hours all up a day for my prisoners to eat (eg brekfast 2 hours lunch 2 hours dinner 2 hours). The free update that came out with Island Bound caused a glich where cooks are not cooking food. An externally hired teacher. If it does, this is probably a bug and you should report it. This worked fine for a while, but recently I noticed a sudden uptick in injured prisoners and dead bodies, and at the same time I noticed a number of prisoners were starving. 19 comments sorted by Best Top New Controversial Q&A. At the same time as they introduced the ability to put more than one prisoner in a room. Yes they do. The cooks think they've met demand once they make enough food for each prisoner to get a low quantity meal regardless of your actual quantity setting. Jun 27, 2020. Workshop = 12 Squares per 1 inmate, to get the 20 inmates you will need the workshop to be 240 squares, for example 24x10 (within the walls) 26x12 (including walls) Laundry = 4 Squares per 1 inmate, to get the 20 inmates. I have 6 cooks 6 stoves 6 fridges and 2 sinks all work fine my food Quality is low and so is the variety, I only have 54 prisoners yet my cooks don't seem to want to do anything in the kitchen they just stand around till an hour before eating time and then they cook like 2 things on one stove and then stop. Now my prisoners are rioting over their starvation over 2 weeks now. So I have a reasonably large prison, with 1 very large canteen. Normal security prisoner : $100 per day ; Maximum security prisoner : $150 per day; Note: Previously you received $100 per prisoner regardless of category - New clock speed option : very fast. The official Prison Architect Wiki page will tell you how many cells of space, each individual worker needs. The cooks do not bring in trays for the staff to eat, I have 5 serving tables 2 sinks and nothing?. Obviously if you have prisoners working in your kitchen, you want to put Work time before Eat time, otherwise the Cooks will have to do all the work and then prisoners won't have anything to do. Prison Architect. Low quantity means every prisoner is fed 1 ingredient. Prison Architect > General Discussions > Topic Details. If a guard is killed or knocked unconscious, baton, jail keys and taser (if they have one) will. - less cooks. With 200 prisoners or more, $1,000 are paied for one day without an incident, $2,000 for two days, up to $10,000 for ten straight days without incident. I have at least 30 individual cells but the number still says 14. #1. I have two questions, 1. Prison Architect. Using the facilities provided to you, the only restriction is your mind. 2. prison format is the way games are saved in Prison Architect. Everything else can just be benches. Todos los derechos reservados. The finances of you facility is influenced by: Federal grant - a permanent amount of $1500, received for the sole fact of running a prison; Grant for the amount of prisoners - each prisoner gives you additional $100 a;A small serving table is a smaller version of the serving table, where cooks will place cooked food and clean food trays for the prisoners. Your fridge/cooker ratio is two cookers to one fridge. Library 12m 2 per prisoner. 956 prisoners to each guard. I also only have 5 workmen. © Valve Corporation. Also you need enough money left over for the cooks to get serving tablets!Tables were functioning properly, but cooks weren't using nearly half of the cookers. I have found 15 cookers, 4 sinks, 25 cooks and around 10 fridges (although the last number varies more then it seems it should) per 100 prisioners is a good rule of thumb. Todos los derechos reservados. Do I have too many guards? I usually have some k9 units patroling heavy traffic areas, and I usually keep 2-4 armed guards in my heavy max area. Prison Architect - Support & Bug reports. 956 prisoners to each guard. #2. Dead bodies would litter the floor full of prisoners who neglected to eat. 956 prisoners to each guard. ago. You should lower your eat times again, see if that works. Prisoners are the criminals you are tasked with containing and maintaining. #2. They only show up one or two at a time, and can only be housed in special Death Row. Feed 80 prisoners with 6 cooks, 4 cookers, 7 fridge and 3 sinks. If this prison were to grow, I would definitely need to expand. 7pm-8pm - Eat. Make sure the cooks can easily get in there, make sure your prisoners get food. Welcome to Prison Architect Going Green where i take a first look at the brand new going green DLC?!? Can we get 100 likes?Main Channel: want a number of carpentry tables, and saws, and then a few presses for those prisoners who haven't passed carpentry yet. Hence why it is so important to try to have a violence - free prison. Build a sprawling mini-retreat for minimum security prisoners with lush cells, TVs and forests or. I don't think that solved it. I tested it in a prison with 200 inmates high quantity/variety and you will only need 3 tables or 6 fridges. The fridge requires a direct power connection to function. MisterSpock Sep 10, 2016 @ 6:58am. 2x3 = 2 prisoners. Guards are not friendly to prisoners who have "Cop Killer". The 4 extra prisoners who don't work the machines move materials around. Canteen tables are 8 prisoners per table so a 80 prisoner canteen fits into a 14 X 24 very well. But what about food variety? How does it factor in how many fridges and cookers you need? Q2. Event 3 is an "Unsolved. I intend to do half of whatever my current prisoner count is, and increase or decrease from their depending how well I'm running it. But everyone's needs are satisfied with 6 bacon to spare, so it's still mission accomplished in my book. Female prisoners sometimes have babies. BTW i did have a kitchen & dinning room for each 80 man cell block but im playing islands and im thinking of having one centralised kitchen. For 110 prisoners, you need no more than 7+2 cooks. Ps: if you dont know already: you need 4 squares per prisoner in a dorm. Todas as marcas comerciais são propriedade dos respetivos proprietários nos E. Most programs are voluntary, but prisoners will be less likely to volunteer for programs if they are badly treated. 5 Cookers with 5 Fridges and at least 5 cooks depending on distance to delivery area and canteen. So your dorm needs a size of 36×4=144 squares. One cook per sink Two fridges per cooker One (or two for larger prisons) )sinks per serving table A lot of people make the mistake of going overboard. EACH 10TH PRISONER: High security: 15 guards each 10th prisoner can be rolled down to 10 if you have a good system and everyone's happy. Kitchen safety and hygiene program issues. What ratio of guards to prisoners do you have in your prisons usually? I have a prison with 268 prisoners and 45 guards, so that comes out to 5. . Münster Mike Nov 20, 2015 @ 10:26am. Welcome to Prison Architect Going Green where i take a first look at the brand new going green DLC?!? Can we get 100 likes?Main Channel: the upper right corner of the screen the number of current prisoners is displayed / the number of max prisoners your prison can handle. Woody Aug 9, 2015 @ 9:28pm. One per cellblock or big room should be enough. Just Another Jinx Main. avantech Jun 15, 2015 @ 6:57am. I recommend 2 cooks per cooker so if one needs a break the other will still. Each one of them has one cooker, one fridge, one sink and one cook. So for three, you need to build a 12 tiles dorm, 4 inmates need 16 and so on. In addition you get an extra $5/prisoner for each day that your prison goes without a riot or murder. I find it helps to put everything they need in the canteen -- phones, bathrooms, showers, prayer mats, radios, exercise benches, etc. 10 cooks + prisoners helping them, only one kitchen. (thanks u/seltzerion) Needs one of both to work (thanks u/TheGurw) Common Room: 8 Chairs for max Alcoholics Group. This kitchen and canteen feeds over 100 inmates with 3 cookers, 3 fridges, 4 cooks, and 1 sink, with plenty of food to spare. Also: the question of shower time is more related to how much time do your prisoners need to get from where they are to the actual shower. Is there a ratio based on cooks to prisoners? If I have 100 prisoners how many cooks/cookers/freezers/sinks/serving tables/tables/benches do I need? Right now I have. 7-9am Breakfast 2-4pm Lunch, 9-11pm Supper. For guards I generally have enough 'free' guards to pick up every prisoner at intake time. Is there a ratio based on cooks to prisoners? If I have 100 prisoners how many cooks/cookers/freezers/sinks/serving tables/tables/benches do I need? Right now I have. 1-5 am: Prisoners get 5 hours of Sleep, but they can extend that to 10 hours if they need it due to their personality. The problem is, there is this greedy cook that keeps hoarding ingredients in his kitchen, even tough there is no more space. try give them more time for eat. They only show up one or two at a time, and can only be housed in special Death Row. The optimum size of a canteen is 11x9 squares (10x9 also works fine). They have freezers full of food and enough cookers, wth is going on?1) 1 hour meals are good, but 2 hour meals are better. 8 saws and 8 presses. What ratio of guards to prisoners do you have in your prisons usually? I have a prison with 268 prisoners and 45 guards, so that comes out to 5. Low security: around 0,3 guards each prisoner. They can also be gang members. A Bakery is a room where prisoners with experience in cooking or customer service can bake bread, cakes and cupcakes and sell them to Civilian Customers. A Prison is the aim of the game and where the premise of Prison Architect is set. You need a working kitchen with fridge, cooker, sink, and a cook to work it. This os because you are payed for each alive prisoner you held within your prison. 1 sink per 50 prisoner. I forgot that I’d set the entire outside area to “Staff Only” in the Deployment tab while I was building the new prison area, and ended up starving a bunch of my prisoners for a few days until I figured out why they. • 4 yr. The workshop can actually be placed outdoors. Besides that, you should consider looking for cell block/canteen problems, connecting cell blocks to canteens and so on. I'd say around 75 per 100. Everyone else can hang out until collection or distribution time. If you have work scheduled before eat times and jobs assigned to the kitchen in the Prison Labour view of the Logistics menu, you can have prisoners help out your. But what about food variety? How does it factor in how many fridges and cookers you need? Q2. UU. So, in more specific: Prisoner A (Med Sec) goes to the canteen at 8am to get his breakfast. The prisoners have no privacy. - Serving tables serve up to 80 meals (wiki), then will be refiled if needed, but the biggest bottleneck seems to be to get prisoners past them fast enough. ago. my policy is meduim variety high quantity 3 meals a day breakfast and dinner one hour, lunch two hours , i have a lot of cooks, half of the time they even work, but my problem is that they dont make enough food for meal time. I believe the workshop is 12 sq per prisoner and cleaning cupboard is 4 or 3 sq per prisoner #3 < > Showing 1-3 of 3 comments . kronaz. Emmote 30 mai 2014 à 17h23. 1. Prisoners will start baking goods as soon as their work shift starts. Each Prisoner will take 1 tray and will take 1, 2 or 3 Ingredients, depending on your Policy. Do I have too many guards? I usually have some k9 units patroling heavy traffic areas, and I usually keep 2-4 armed guards in my heavy max area. Multiple homicide caught on camera- gonna fry. Do I have too many guards? I usually have some k9 units patroling heavy traffic areas, and I usually keep 2-4 armed guards in my heavy max area. They are merely storage. The prisoner count has increased from 150 to 200, so most of the excess has been mopped up. Depends on the size of your cellblock. Do I have too many guards? I usually have some k9 units patroling heavy traffic areas, and I usually keep 2-4 armed guards in my heavy max area. The number of cooks cant be calculated since it depends on nr. More specifically, visitors can take the forms of: An inmate's family member. It is arguably one of the most important rooms needed to sustain a functioning prison with moderately happy inmates. Workshops : You need the 'prison labor' research, then from the 'deployment' tab, switch to 'jobs' and assign them to the appropriate areas. 1 serving table per 40 prisoners, 4 cooks and cookers per serving table, 1 fridge to two cookers, and one sink to 2 fridges. I would suggest to start with cleaning cuppoard as it has highest prisoner to room size ratio (1:3, 100:300). I have 2 mealtimes a day but my prisoners want more food during freetime, however my cooks don't make any food before the mealtimes so the prisoners… Coins 0 coinshello i have a little problem that i dont seem to figure out. (Assuming large quantity of food) Oh and of course a cook per cooker, add some additional prison labor to help wash the dishes maybe. You dont have to turn them off, as they dont overheat the prison.