Repairs are making me broke, help tips needed

[JaguarXJ6]

Whenever 2 or 3 prisoners get fiesty their toliets, beds wreck havoc on the income. How do you deal with these more aggressive ones besides throwing them in solitary and supression?

Obviously keeping them content and controlled lowers maintenance dramatically, however I find I am going broke with just 30 something and all of the constant repairs.

I do get danger from the chief into yellow before it subsides again right before meal time and sometimes from a fight in the yard.

[HerrJoebob]

This doesn't directly address your problem, but do you have a workshop built? Those will provide significant income to cover repairs.

As for keeping the prisoners quiet, that's kind of just the learning curve...

[sprouts1115]

Make sure in Regime: Meal Quantity and Meal Variety are maxed out. I find this to be a common problem in maps I download and check out.

[GC13]

They'll still be quite fine with meals of Medium quantity and Low variety.

Jaguar, I think the best thing to do at this point is start a new prison and take the lessons you've learned to heart. It's okay to be a serial builder: we all make tons of prisons.

[HerrJoebob]

They'll still be quite fine with meals of Medium quantity and Low variety.

Jaguar, I think the best thing to do at this point is start a new prison and take the lessons you've learned to heart. It's okay to be a serial builder: we all make tons of prisons.

X2, also to add - I go with 'none' variety and have no trouble. It doesn't seem to matter at this point and the cooks never get confused about where to take the food.

[JaguarXJ6]

Holding cell to get the bureaucracy maxed out, all admin staff, and workshops running which allows me to cover the essentials easily enough. The individual cell blocks without CCTV were simply wrecking havoc and I had to squeeze in a third meal time in order to keep them all happy. That seems to have done the trick but in the night, they seem to need a bowel break because it wars with food. Even with 4 slots of free time in 3 segments and toliets in the shower (great idea!) they can't relieve enough. Eventually they rioted but at least I can reload and take measures to prevent it.