Prison Architect Guide

Professional Prison Security for Prison Architect

Professional Prison Security

Overview

Next level ways to secure your prison.

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-Sealing
Closing doors behind you and opening them in front of you.

-Customs Checkpoint
Nothing enters the prison unchecked.

-Interrogation Room
Find out what a prisoners reputation is.

-Phone Tap
Make sure every phone call is tapped without a doubt.

-Anti Tunnel
Find out when your prisoners are trying to escape by tunnel.

-Event: Fire
Prevent a fire from spreading.

-Event: Viral Outbreak
Cure diseased prisoners with more efficiency.

Sealing

This method is useful when you want things to go step by step or prisoner by prisoner.

When the door to the left opens, the door to the right closes.
When the door to the right opens, the door to the left closes.

The door to the left is connected to the logic gate set to NOT, the logic gate connects to the door on the right. In the picture above, the door to the right won’t ever close unless there is traffic coming from the left. One can use pressure pads placed behind the doors to open or close them when a specific point is reached. The use of Remote Doors is optional.

Customs Checkpoint

Using this method, nothing will get past this checkpoint without first passing the metal detector and the dogs. For optimal effect, refrain from hiring another Dog Handler untill the first one in use is ‘Tired’.

  • The two small jaildoors leading in to the control room are wired to the door control.
  • The two outter doors are wired to the door control.
  • The inner doors are also connected to the door control.
  • The two inner doors use the ‘sealing method’:
  • One is connected to the logic gate set to NOT and the logic gate is connected to the other door.
  • This makes it so that only one of these doors is opened at a time.
  • Use the deployment scheduler to have dog patrols only when prisoners will be going through.

Some other examples

Interrogation Room

This way prisoners with an ‘unknown reputation’ will be filtered out and unmasked.

  • Build a holding cell with a tapped phone. Assign it to a certain security level (pc, s-max).
  • Assign a prisoner with an unknown reputation to that security level.
  • If the whole schedule is free time they will use the tapped phone regularly.
  • Keep the rooms small and keep a guard in there to prevent trouble.
  • Frequently check back for the prisoners and assign them to the correct security.

Phone Tap

Prisoners make a lot of phone calls. This way you won’t miss out on anything funky.

Both the pressure plate inside the phone room and the one at the Phone Tap are connected/set to open the Remote Door. When the guard is tapping the phones, the door stays open, if he leaves the Phone Tap, the door closes. Prisoners can’t enter the room unless the Phone Tap is being used, but due to the pressure plate inside the room, they will always be able to leave. Remember to use a Remote Door as the door to the phone room..

The Phone Tap connects to the phones. The pressure plate at the Phone Tap connects to the status light and the Remote Door’s servo. The pressure plate in the phone room connects to the servo of the Remote Door.

Anti Tunnel

At night, your prisoners might attempt to dig a tunnel. This method will notify you when so.

When Sleep is the active regime, and a prisoner decides to ‘use the toilet’ (decides to tunnel), he’ll have to pass one of the pressure pad’s, and the light turns green to notify you.

Each of the pressure pads connects to it’s own logic gate set to AND.
The Door Timer connects to each of the logic gates set to AND.
The logic gates set to AND connect to the status light.
The Door Timer is set to unlock during Sleep.

You need one status light, 2 AND logic gates and 2 pressure plates per cell.
You only need one Door Timer for multiple cells.

Event: Fire

1 – Build sprinklers above the cookers like this.
2 – During a fire the sprinklers will go off automaticly.
3 – The fire will go out by itself.
4 – Repair the cooker and enjoy your fire-free prison!

This method also works with generators etc.

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Event: Viral Outbreak

During a viral outbreak, hire Paramedics and station them in your busiest pathways like so:


The regular Bangup method is still recommended.

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