How do I feed prisoners on lockup?

[[GAS] JDUBS]

I want maximum security and above to be lockdown 24 hours a day, but if I do that they starve. How do I feed them?

[Frazzledragøn the Trustworthy]

Prisoners in Permanent Punishment (or generally long punishments) will be fed automatically when the Sec Level itself has Eat regime on the schedule.

So, in more specific:
Prisoner A (Med Sec) goes to the canteen at 8am to get his breakfast
Prisoner B (Med Sec) is in Permanent Punishment - a guard will bring him a small portion of food at 8am
Prisoner C (Max Sec) goes to the canteen at 10am
Prisoner D (Max Sec) gets food from a guard at 10am

Guards will also bring food to prisoners who are Starving, even if they are not in punishment. (I won't elaborate on how that can happen)

[TheXev]

Make sure that the cell block is assigned a canteen. The guards have to have a canteen to bring food from as well.

[Savanna Staxx]

Originally posted by Frazzledragøn the Trustworthy:

Prisoners in Permanent Punishment (or generally long punishments) will be fed automatically when the Sec Level itself has Eat regime on the schedule.

So, in more specific:
Prisoner A (Med Sec) goes to the canteen at 8am to get his breakfast
Prisoner B (Med Sec) is in Permanent Punishment - a guard will bring him a small portion of food at 8am
Prisoner C (Max Sec) goes to the canteen at 10am
Prisoner D (Max Sec) gets food from a guard at 10am

Guards will also bring food to prisoners who are Starving, even if they are not in punishment. (I won't elaborate on how that can happen)

What's this ''permanent punishment''? Are you just making stuff up? There's only Punish for 24 hours after which you have to do that again, but this will be impossible if you have say 200 prisoners.

The only thing you can do is schedule Lockup between sleep, but if you assign an hour of Eat, the prisoners' cells will open and they'll go to the canteen. I tried making the canteen Staff Only to see if guards would bring food to the cellblock that it was assigned to, but that didn't work.

The only time guards bring food to inmates is when they're Starving, and they don't stay there forever. You have to manually assign them a 24 hour Punish each day.

Either I'm missing something or you're making something up. I've tried, but there's no way to force inmates in their cells and have guards feed them. I'd be happy to be wrong tho, because I can't believe this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game doesn't have the cell-feeding for Maximum or let alone SuperMax as a scheduled event and having to manually set each prisoner to 24 hour Punish is both impractical and unrealistic.

[No.]

Originally posted by Sky Blart, Meme Cop:

What's this ''permanent punishment''? Are you just making stuff up? There's only Punish for 24 hours after which you have to do that again.

lol?
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=666008037

[Frazzledragøn the Trustworthy]

Have you taken a look at your Research tree? Perma Punish is in there.

[lissa_981]

It is there, and even before you get it you can kinda fake it by clickling the 24h ld multable times (the counter will keep adding) I do that somtimes when I get the fed witness event before I have it researched. I just click it enough times to keep them in thier cell past when the event ends.
Feeding prisoners in cells can be a bit time consuming for your gaurds in the best of times, so you may want to consider putting a tiny canteen in your cell block to make the walk distance smaller. :-)

[cheetome]

you need a layer in an office to research permanant punishments.

[billy]

the added bonus about permanent punishment is it allows you to remove punishments as well. Handy for gang leaders.

[Savanna Staxx]

Originally posted by No:

Originally posted by Sky Blart, Meme Cop:

What's this ''permanent punishment''? Are you just making stuff up? There's only Punish for 24 hours after which you have to do that again.

lol?
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=666008037

Originally posted by Frazzledragøn the Trustworthy:

Have you taken a look at your Research tree? Perma Punish is in there.

Originally posted by cheetome:

you need a layer in an office to research permanant punishments.

Originally posted by billy:

the added bonus about permanent punishment is it allows you to remove punishments as well. Handy for gang leaders.

Great! So I did miss something. This must be a new thing I haven't checked out yet. That is pretty sweet. I'll be using this for leaders and very dangerous inmates in max and supermax. I assume it'll be handier to assign two consecutive hours for Eat so that the cooks and guards can take their time to feed them all?

Originally posted by lissa_981:

It is there, and even before you get it you can kinda fake it by clickling the 24h ld multable times (the counter will keep adding) I do that somtimes when I get the fed witness event before I have it researched. I just click it enough times to keep them in thier cell past when the event ends.
Feeding prisoners in cells can be a bit time consuming for your gaurds in the best of times, so you may want to consider putting a tiny canteen in your cell block to make the walk distance smaller. :-)

Yeah that's what I was assuming, it would've been impractical. Luckily, I missed out on an update that included permanent punishment. =D