Diary of a Prison Architect – Day 4, Health Grant

Dear Diary,

We have had another eight prisoners arrive this morning and I can’t say we are completely prepared for them. I’ve started drawing up some plans for a new cell block to house them but I’m not sure we have the budget to commence construction yet. We will have some money coming in now from the workshop but another cash injection would be helpful. There is one more government grant we can accept, one for Health and Well Being. They will give us $10, 000 now and another $10,000 on completion of a medical ward and hiring of medical and psychology staff. That’s more wages out of the daily budget but the cash now is really needed.

The holding cell will be home to these men until we can complete the new cell block. They won’t be happy to be kept in there for long so I’ve already had the workmen start on our medical ward and the Warden is looking for staff so that we may complete our final grant. I’ve also had the workmen construct some solitary confinement cells in case things get out of hand with some of the prisoners.

Prisoner Ed Daymond (pleaded guilty to Assault) was just caught on his way to the kitchen carrying a bottle of poison. This could have been disastrous if it were not for our metal detector alerting the guard. Daymond won’t say though where he got the poison from, could he have stolen it from one of our janitors? maybe some time in lockdown will get him talking.

Our Psychologist has begun work already and has done an initial assessment of the state of the prisoners needs. They are mostly well catered for right now except for some serious complaints about dirty clothing.

That won’t be an issue for long though, the prisoners working in the laundry will soon have a clean uniform waiting on every bed for the men after their shower time. They’ve already made a start. And what’s this, Miles Grostefon (pleaded guilty to Possession) taking a shower wearing sunglasses, and during work time no less. He thinks he’s pretty cool but I don’t trust him. Lets send a guard in to see if he’s got anything to hide.

A hard day’s work, the Foreman has done his final count of the license plates and we’ve invoiced the state for a considerable $4,660. And with no incidents today we should be able to ramp up production even more tomorrow. Once the new cell block is done we’ll be able to put money towards even more machines for the workshop.

One last thing before I head off for some sleep tonight, our doctors arrived on site! That completes the requirement for the Health and Well Being grant and brings us in a well needed $10,000. Goodnight!