Electric fences are a great idea. Not lethal, but dangerous enough to deter some prisoners, and injure the rest.

Regular fences should be easier to get across, through, or below.

There could be a possibility to use "enhanced interrogation techniques", in other words torture. Discretion would be needed. Here is na idea how it could look: New room (researched by the Lawyer, deep down in the Tech Tree: "Room 101" . Room 101 contains no furnishing, except a s...

There seems to be a difference between doors' toughness.

Prisoners can break the cheapest doors.

33a has already a Reception room.

Good idea.

Contraband should have a size factor, affecting the chance to find it. Currently, contraband that is neither smelly nor metallic, cannot easily be spotted. Booze and wooden pickaxes tend to be smuggled a lot. So, each kind of contraband should have a size; small, medium or large. If a prisoner carri...

Many Needs just increase with time. More dynamic causes of need would improve realism and strategic depth. Clothing: Increased by being outdoors, eating, working in the kitchen, and puking from alcohol. Hygiene: Increased by exercise and walking. Food: Increased by exercise and hard work. Bowels: In...

Workshop prisoners can make beds. They should also be able to make chairs, benches, desks, and other furniture needed around the prison.

Possibly, there can be more wear and tear for prison furniture, even without deliberate destruction.

Trickster: Invisible reputation, which shows up as some other reputation.
Activist: Can organize strikes and sit-ins, if conditions are poor.
Enforcer: Seeks out snitches and ex-cops directly. For balance, other prisoners can be less motivated to do so.

Agree on chief, not warden.

As the warden no longer attends parole hearings, there is no reason to give him more keys.

Dogs are treated pretty simply: You research them, build a kennel, hire them, and send them to patrol. Simulation of dogs could be enhanced. For example, they could have rather low skills when arriving, and gain skills through training programs in the kennel. Agility Training: Needs an obstacle. Imp...

There are already weight machines, that can be placed in more or less any room. Agree that staff should be able to use machines, though. There should also be more kinds of exercise, such as ball games.

Prisoners should be able to do outdoor maintenance, if assigned to a Garden Shed room.

The game should add a significant economic cost of removing a corpse, if there is no morgue, where an autopsy can be done.

Agree.

Good ideas, most of them.