Where can prisoners work? How does prisoner bus work?

[Banijssen]

So I googled for about an hour on this subject and still it is unclear for me.

I set up a prisoner line with a prisoner bus, loaded the prisoners, that worked. But than I tried a solar powerplant, a slaugtherhouse, a heating plant, a zoo..., but everywhere I can select the building. The prisonerbus drives there filled with prisoners, but even if the option unload is only selected, still the prisoners won't exit the bus.

So what buildings can prisoners work? What am I doing wrong possibly?

Also does it matter if the working place is full? Or should you always be able to top it off? That last would be logical, as sometimes also more workers than the target are allowed.

Please help me setting my prisoners too work.

Greetings.

[Whitek3t]

In my case I use my prisoners to work the brick factory and the logging camp. Maybe you can try the mines too, or don't mix them with regular comrades?

[MrKrabs]

I observed the same.
I had them work in following sites.

Mines
Cement Faktory
Wood cutter

This is what I remember atm.
I guess there are a few more places where they can work.

[Pfirsich1966]

It only worked for me if there was a distance to other buildings with workers. However, I do not know how large this distance must be. I always do about 100m.

[barry.zandstra]

As far as I understand, they can work inside any building, but not as doctors, engineers, teacher, etc. Only the blue collar jobs. By inside any building, I mean they can not work at a railroad construction office or fire station, since those jobs require workers to go out.

The prison bus must also be sent directly to the workplace and not to a bus stop, for obvious reasons.

Another prison tip: The prison is full when there are no more empty prisoner slots, at around 140 prisoners. They can technically take more, but that is overcrowding which leads to more escapes.

[Elessar_warrior]

My experience when the prison updated got out is that prisoners mixed with normal workers doesn't work great. It seens that normal workers sometimes make a "reserve" on the work slots. When i started using only prisoner labour on a building (or very few normal workers) everything went fine.

[forzion]

For me prisoners work the best in industry where you never hade enough workers like mines or you just want to have at least some workers available all the time.

[MrKrabs]

That's right. To me it's a pain to see a fully loaded prisoners bus arrives just to head back with the inmates.
So I also prefer workplaces where many are required.

[Banijssen]

Well, it is not all that clear yet I conclude. But thanks for the tips everybody.

[☭ SKA-6053 ☭]

I prefer to put them in mines. If I remember rightly they could also work at elecrticity and heat powerplants, but IRL I wouldn't trust prisoners to work in such crucial industries, since they could just ♥♥♥ them up on pourpose.

[Cullen's Hound]

I send them all to my Uranium mine, I make a little complex with a couple of large prisons at the uranium mine and then smaller prisons in the towns, when those start to get more than 1 to 1 ratio to guards I transfer prisoners to the mine complex.

[thegrandmystic]

Mines is where I send mine, raw material or industry places that can absorb a lot of workers.

[Jackington]

I usually double the drop points per bus (Prison>Fabrics>Clothes...ect) to ensure they get used.

From testing anything that doesn't require educated workers seems to function with them outside of services

[loerelau]

No complaints so far, my prisoners are working in a cement/prefabs panel factory.