Meal deliveries?
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Meal deliveries?
Would it be a good idea to implement meal deliveries as an option? They can be a handy alternative to the canteen for max security (or just very angry) prisoners. ANd in real life, most prison doors have slots specificially for food trays. Thoughts?
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In fact most High Security Prisons hand out food instead of having a canteen.
Cantinas are very dangerous places in prisons. Even more so in prisons only 'inhabited' by high security prisoners.
Having a cantina is cheaper than having 10 or more guys delivering food and hauling empty food containers.
But just think of the possible outcome in a max sec prison when two groups of violent inmates are shoving each other to determine who gets food first.
Murder and mayhem await.
Cantinas are very dangerous places in prisons. Even more so in prisons only 'inhabited' by high security prisoners.
Having a cantina is cheaper than having 10 or more guys delivering food and hauling empty food containers.
But just think of the possible outcome in a max sec prison when two groups of violent inmates are shoving each other to determine who gets food first.
Murder and mayhem await.
BL4DE wrote:In fact most High Security Prisons hand out food instead of having a canteen.
Cantinas are very dangerous places in prisons. Even more so in prisons only 'inhabited' by high security prisoners.
Having a cantina is cheaper than having 10 or more guys delivering food and hauling empty food containers.
But just think of the possible outcome in a max sec prison when two groups of violent inmates are shoving each other to determine who gets food first.
Murder and mayhem await.
I know of a famous one...
But I think it doesn't really make so much of a difference. In both cases you need a bunch of staff: either to hand out the food or to keep order in the canteen.
BL4DE wrote:A lot of staff is needed in any event.
But for the canteen solution more of the staff has to be security staff. And these are more costly than half- or noneducated kitchen helpers.
And by the way, food delivery can also be done by inmates.
If you don't trust your prisoners to be able to come near each other in an open room overseen by staff, why do you trust them to go to other prisoners with their food.
Also, the reason why one could prefer a canteen is simply because you can keep better track of the cutlery. If you have a few prisoners who get their meals in their cells, you can keep track, but with all of them you really can't rely on prisoners to bring and collect it, you'll never find out where it went.
Security staff might be more costly then your kitchen helpers, but I think with a good design and effective placing of your guards you won't need all that many. Maybe if we could assign guards to go to the canteen at dinner time and patrol a different building the rest of the time it would be more cost effective.
gpgekko wrote:BL4DE wrote:A lot of staff is needed in any event.
But for the canteen solution more of the staff has to be security staff. And these are more costly than half- or noneducated kitchen helpers.
And by the way, food delivery can also be done by inmates.
If you don't trust your prisoners to be able to come near each other in an open room overseen by staff, why do you trust them to go to other prisoners with their food.
Also, the reason why one could prefer a canteen is simply because you can keep better track of the cutlery. If you have a few prisoners who get their meals in their cells, you can keep track, but with all of them you really can't rely on prisoners to bring and collect it, you'll never find out where it went.
Security staff might be more costly then your kitchen helpers, but I think with a good design and effective placing of your guards you won't need all that many. Maybe if we could assign guards to go to the canteen at dinner time and patrol a different building the rest of the time it would be more cost effective.
I said "can" not "will".
Only well behaving inmates would be doing this job.
The ones who have started figths, destroyed installations and the like are not eligable.
And of course no prisoner should have contact to another without supervision. A guard has to be present in the cell block before the food able to be delivered.
For the reason of 'being able to keep track of the cutlery'.
There are people having more calm thoughts with 5 aggravated and pissed off vigilantes in front of them than 20 mildly anoyed inmates locked in the cells out of view.
I'm not one of them.
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