plumbing & other problems

[DuncanPerham]

I had a guy who was released that was sitting on a toilet, but he would not leave, all his needs were maxed out, including using the toilet. Are these toilets vacum toilets, is that why he got stuck, I did feed them well, maybe he was too fat and compleatly covered the rim of the toilet, if so, i think thats dangerous for prisoners as we cant have this sort of thing happening a lot, although it would save a lot of money on building cells as we could just stick them all to the toilets instead. :)
I dismantled the toilet and it fixed the problem.

I also noticed that if you build the big watter pipes stright down a wall, if it goes through a cross section, the workers cant get to the bit thats surrounded by wall on all 4 sides. Fair enough or maybe thats a bug? but what was more intresting is that for the rest of the game I was always 2 pipes short (i tried to build 2 pipes on the crosses, then deleted them). So 2 pipe sections were always waiting to be built, but there was no pipe available.

due to budget problems and increasing prisoner population, I was forced to build cells with a bed and toilet, but no walls or doors, I made about 50 of these, and my prisoners were very happy and always went to there cells when told. After I had built enough of everything, my prinsoners remained very happy all nigh(our nights, 8 hours) without any input from me what so ever, my pop cap remained about 60 for the whole game. Once you hit that figure it dosent rise so there is no need to build anything else.

the laundry and workshop dont work, but i think thats an in progress thing.

The stationing guards upgrade often does not work, it just sticks at 5.59 and fails to move, although after 8 real hours for some reason it decided to get teh job done?

[Nix]

You can't build anything in a space surrounded by walls.

Prisoners will go to whatever counts as a cell, but it's risky. If you don't use doors/walls, prisoners are free to go whenever they feel like it, so if they start rioting, your guards will die horribly with all the prisoners ganging up on them. It's safer to build doors/walls, as angry prisoners will have to bust through the door first (and some will destroy their bed/toilet first), giving guards enough time to waddle over and beat sense into them one by one.

Also the laundry/workshop are functional, but it's a bit backward. On top of the foreman with labour research, you also need the officer with deployment research. After that, click deployment, and then jobs in the bottom left. After doing that, you can assign jobs to inmates.

Be careful when using the workshop though; supplies for making license plates are a constant drain on your money during work hours, and license plates are only sold at midnight.