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Fences are extremely cheap to build, so they are excellent for creating a perimeter around your prison when starting up.

Similarly, placing contraband countermeasures at your prison entrance and delivery zone can stop them from becoming a problem before they even enter your prison. This can prevent prisoners from stealing drugs and metal tools.

When setting up work areas for your prisoners, you should consider placing Metal Detectors at the entrances to such places, and deploying K-9 units to patrol the entrances.

Make sure to use the Deployment menu to keep them out of places where they don't need to be.

Beware, prisoners can steal Contraband from rooms that contain objects that they can use for their own nefarious purposes.

No amount of walls will hold them in if you don't have secure doors.

Prisoners make no attempt to break/climb walls, only doors.

As such, laying tile paths throughout your prison and beneath the Delivery, Garbage and Export zones can facilitate the movement of prisoners and staff alike, allowing them to reach their destinations faster.

Concrete tiles greatly increase the movement speed of any entities pathing over them.

Do not confuse the Storage area with the Deliveries area.

It is recommended to build a Storage area near the middle of your prison and/or adjacent to the kitchen.

Solitary cells have no requirements on size, so pack them in tight! There is also no requirement to use a Solitary Door, so if money is short then using regular Jail Doors can work on a temporary basis.

Building a large foundation and then filling it in afterward is inefficient and costly.

Foundations can be expanded, so building a small foundation that meets your immediate needs and increasing its size afterward can reduce the cost of building a prison.

They block water rather than reducing it, so place them in front of or underneath doors, not under shower heads.

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To prevent flooding, install drains in the Shower.

Placing garbage bins near your Cookers and Serving Tables can greatly reduce the amount of work needed to clean up.

Cookers generate food waste when preparing food, and extra meals are automatically dumped at the end of eating periods.

They can be a useful stopgap measure in case you cannot afford to build a Visitation building when starting up a prison.

Prisoners' Family need can be met by putting Phone Booths in the Yard, Common Room or the Canteen.

Efficient building placement can allow your prisoners to take shorter trips to do what they need to, such as placing Showers in or near prison blocks, Canteens in a central zone, and so on.

Remember that Prisoners must travel to their destinations, which takes time.

They don't go in the shower room, or in cells!

Sinks are used for cleaning trays in the kitchen.

This means that if there is a riot, then it will only happen in one location and not the entire prison, it is recommended to have at least one prison guard patrolling each cell block at all times.

A foundation that is 12 by 25 can fit 16 prisoner cells (of the 2x3 standard size, the Lawyer may reduce that further).

Make sure to place multiple beds in your Holding Cell, as your prisoners still need a place to sleep.

A Holding Cell is a cheap way to house prisoners early on, but is only a temporary measure until you can construct individual cells for each prisoner.

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Download this prison cell calculator (or use the web version) to assist you in accurately planning the size for the foundation.

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