Part of designing a good prison for PA is to work within the constraints of the game to create a good traffic flow. A great prison block that doesn't properly handle traffic flow may not be so great after all. There are two ways around that: 1: Lobby to change the constraints of the game so your gre...

In order for cells A and B to be in the same cellblock, a prisoner must be able to exit cell A and walk to cell B's door without going outside or going through an intervening doorway. You can tell if a space is outside by what type of "flooring" you can place there. You can place grass, sa...

Looking at your regime, try letting the prisoners sleep until it's time to shower. That hour of lockup will just give the angry another hour to stew. Of course, that may mess up your efforts to keep the maxSec prisoners away from the others. Not the perfect solution, but if you want to install showe...

Below is a table showing the distribution of prisoners to cells in a prison I began using Alpha 35 with gangs enabled on a small plot of land. I started new, with no carry-over money from a previous prison sale. To briefly explain the table: Cell ratings from 0 to 10 go across the top, while prisone...

Get a much faster computer. I'm sorry for what may sound like a non-helpful answer, but that's the real answer to the question. The dev team has been working to make the game run more efficiently, and there have been many suggestions given to them on how to accomplish that. As well as criticism. But...

Also, you can make it more difficult for your prisoners to quality for parole by adjusting the parole policy. I got desparate once and just didn't schedule any parole hearings. But the best solution is quantity. The more prisoners you have, and the more time they have to servre, the more opportunity...

You can create cell blocks where every cell has a window to the outside. Think of a long hall with cells off to either side.

My two-cents: You have the right to complain if the game doesn't suit your tastes. But don't expect everyone to agree with you. Maybe you should give the cell rating system more attention. If a prisoner deserves an above-average cell and is assigned an average or below-average cell, there is a great...

The Low FPS on the deployment screen has been marked as "resolved" in the Mantis bug tracker. I assume that Alpha 36 will have the correction.

Just so your know, we can't access your pictures. You provided their location on your computer. You'll need to upload them to a file-sharing/hosting service like Dropbox, and post links to their location then. I've used a separate zone for Supermax and for PC though I haven't tried putting both in t...

Laundry: You need to allocate your cells into cell blocks. A cell block is a group of cells with doors that all open onto the same foundation with no other doors on the foundation between them. Most of your cells open onto non-foundation. You can tell because the surface can be changed to grass or ...

I played with your .prison for a while, but I'm still stumped. I re-read the notes that were blogged along with the Alpha 33 release video. Here's what it says about entitlement: Prisoners are entitled to better quality cells (if they exist) as they build up time for 'good behaviour'. You can see a ...

Thanks, Pogmothoin. I didn't realize that the Parole program was free. As far as access / security level...The parole rooms are shared access, as is the path for the general prison population. I do have a small PC area, currently 5 prisoners. And it has a path, fully PC access right up to a door int...

I started a new Prison with A35, no mods. I've noticed in this prison that I'm not able to get all of the Parole reviews in the queue to respond to an open slot in the schedule. It used to be (A34) that so long as I could schedule more slots, I could empty the queue each day. With the occasional exc...

Do you have any mods loaded?
Does your regime look normal, or is it set to 100% lockup and/or sleep?
Do your prisoners have handcuffs on?

Hint: For future note, use a subject that indicates the nature of the post. "Prisoners won't leave cells" might be better than "Massive Bug".