Prison Programs

For the 'work' slot to work properly your prisoners will need somewhere to, well, work. After you unlock 'Prison Labor' under the foreman's section of the bureaucracy tree you can order prisoners to work in certain rooms. This is done with the 'Logistics' tab and shows rooms where prisoners can work in green. Ordering prisoners into a room is done by clicking the same as deploying guards.Some rooms such as the cleaning cupboard and laundry can be operated by any prisoners, but the classroom, kitchen, and workshop are dependent on programs.Kitchen work requires prisoners pass the 'Kitchen Safety And Hygiene' course taught by a cook in the kitchen. This is a two hour voluntary course with a low failure rate. When allowing prisoners into the kitchen remember its contraband generation and fit appropriate measure to stop it from spreading.Workshops are associated with two classes. The most basic level 'Workshop Safety Induction' allows prisoners to use basic workshop equipment in the form of the saws and presses. It is a two hour voluntary course with a low failure rate. After completing the class prisoners will work in the workshop they are assigned during all future 'work' times. Workshops also have a second level of training called 'Carpentry Apprenticeship' which is a two hour class with a moderate-high failure rate. It requires a carpentry bench and allows prisoners to make superior beds on carpentry tables in the future. As this course first requires the workshop safety induction course it is very difficult to find prisoners able and willing to complete the carpentry course.Classrooms are where your prisoners will take classes in 'Foundation Education Programs' and afterwards the more advanced 'General Education Qualification'. Both these programs are 3 hours long and require a school desk for each student. The foundation class has a low failure rate but the general one is much harder. These classes are useful for maintaining a working prisoner-run library as Foundation Education will allow workers to sort books. Both courses also help reduce re-offending rates.Other programs include the 'Alcoholics Group Therapy' held in common rooms for 2 hours with a psychologist. This will reduce prisoners alcohol need without getting them liquored up. The only other way to fill the alcohol need is to allow booze contraband into your prison.Psychologists also hold 1-on-1 2-hour 'Behavioral Therapy' meetings in their offices to reduce prisoner aggression and make them less likely to start future fights. These classes are automatically assigned to prisoners who have been instigators of fights.Doctors will lead 'Pharmacological Treatment Of Drug Addiction' courses in infirmaries. This will work like AA meetings to lower a prisoners drug needs without letting them get high, although it only takes 1 hour so much less time than the AA meeting. It is automatically assigned to prisoners caught with drugs.Spiritual Leaders will arrive to lead sermons in the chapel. This will satisfy your prisoners spirituality need as well as creating a prison-wide effect to reduce violence for a period of time. This is a voluntary program but unlike others prisoners will attend multiple sessions.The Parole Hearing takes place in the parole room and decides which prisoners may be set free. It is vital to the rooms operation, and prisoners denied parole may become agitated so station a guard nearby.These are all the programs that take place during prisoner 'work' times, with the exception ofParole which can take place anytime. The last program is called ‘Guard Tazer Certification' and focuses on Guard training. It can occur at any time the classroom is free and teaches guards how to use Tazers when the right research is completed and is led by the security chief. It is only a 1 hour course and has a high pass rate.All programs must be ordered in the programs tab and assigned a time within your prisoners 'work' slots. You can have multiple operations of the same programs so long as you have all the requirements to carry out the multiple slots.When building a regime and prisoner programs the access of your prisoners can be another consideration. To set prisoner access use the 'deployment' window to colour code areas. As well as setting entire areas you can create airlocks what can't be passed by some classes of prisoner. This allows for shared med/min sec areas with separate max sec for example.