Prisoners Sleep Too Much

[Severon]

I want to be able to set up a regime where prisoners will eat at 5,do a couple more hours of work and then have 4 hours to relax and free time. But what do they do? They all decide to go to sleep at 8. It seems that if you schedule any free time after 8, they will usually opt to go to sleep (which is usually only in the yellow) rather than take care of any other need which may be critical.
I've heard that this is hard coded somewhere but, really, 12 hours of sleep when their sleep need is taken care of in half that time seems overkill.
Is there a mod that rebalances the sleep need. I don't think Introversion are likely to look into it.


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[Rogue]

lol boy are you a softy. 4 hours for fun and relaxation! Put the buggers to work. Send them to classes.

My prisoners go to bed at 11pm and shower at 5am. Lockdown for an hour before a one hour eat. Then they either work or go back to their cell.

[Severon]

Haha, Im only soft on the min sec. Max sec will be in almost all day lockdown

[Marcy]

Who will win? A prison regime? or 96 evil bois.

Seems like you believe in reform as well! I've also noticed that if I give prisoners enough free time (especially during the evening), some of them prefer to sleep over taking care of any other need. I don't think it's a problem though, because that's what free time is for, to, if necessary, also catch up on sleep you lack at night.

I've never really had it stand out too much. I'll just catch the occasional prisoner sleeping, but that's about it. Is it a problem for you?

[Marcuz]

Prisoners will have the need for sleep after 6 or 7 hours of being up. But it can be fulfilled in like 2 hours.
The sleeping time is 8pm to 8am. So if you give your prisoners any lockdown/freetime after 8pm , they will go to sleep and wake up at 8am OR at the time you tell them to do something else.

So, if you want them to sleep less, don't give them any lockup/freetime after 8pm, you can do yard/eat time. And when you think its ok for them to go to sleep go for the lockdown/sleep.

[Severon]

Yeah, I try to give my min and medium sec chances to reform. I set my parole cap at just 5% so they gotta earn their release.
I mainly want them to fill some of their needs in the evening just so that its not critical in the morning. Like the recreation and family. Ive had prisons before where the first hour, every single prisoner goes mental every day because oh my god they haven't had a chance to watch a soap opera or used the phone since waking up.

[MekaDovah]

There is a Sleep Anytime mod on the workshop. I use it sometimes in an attempt to stagger the schedule so protected prisoners don't need an entire other prison to remain isolated from everyone else.