Guide to Regime, Needs and Programmes - Prison Architect

This is the guide to help you understand how to master needs, regimes and programmes in Prison Architect.
If your a beginner this will help give you advanced tips to master these 3 aspects of running a successful prison with ease.
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[@ace10229]

This is for anyone who is looking for tips on building a great psych ward with criminally insane inmates. They can only participate in four programs: Spiritual Guidance, Alcoholics Group Therapy, Behavioral Therapy, and Psychiatric Consultation (the very important one). This means that they *cannot* work, as it is impossible for criminally insane inmates to participate in the required programs. Yes, this also means you absolutely cannot treat them in the Infirmary for drug addiction. Have dogs, metal detectors, and anything else from the DLCs that will help catch contraband before it reaches your prisoners.

[@supplyjam]

Couldn't of said that better myself 😁 thanks for the comment 👍

[@bambii98]

THANK YOU! I recently took this game back out of the old Steam cupboard since PA2 is coming out and needed this exact refresh and even a couple tips I never thought of. Cheers!

[@supplyjam]

Thats great, glad I could help 😁 thanks for the comment 👍

[@Zoltanintheblue]

wow thank you. Exactly what I was looking for. Need more modern PA guides

[@supplyjam]

No problem, glad it helped you out 😊 anything else you need, let me know 👍

[@RustyWalker]

You can stagger eat times by security sector (see 2:38 where this is done for one security sector) so the canteen doesn't have to be so huge and there is a steadier flow of fresh food being replenished. Shower blocks aren't particularly useful unless you're doing min sec only or are using the graded cell system and want some very low tier cells, but you can be sneaky and put showers and toilets (and pretty much anything else that fulfills needs including prayer mats and bird cages) in program rooms, workshops, the canteen, classrooms and yards. The bird cage addresses the luxury need. It'll be useful in your psych ward run. You can put them in cells and in the canteen. From memory, the AoE is 3x3, or 9 squares.

[@supplyjam]

Yea showers are pretty useless, thus why I always put them in cells now, they do it in their freetime rather than using a slot, rather spend that slot on more freetime or work... get the most out of our prisoners 😏

[@BerbyHuang]

Nice guide, thank you!

[@supplyjam]

No worries, glad it helped you out 👍

[@rustman2578]

Thank you so much I sub and like I needed this

[@supplyjam]

Thank you 😁 I'm glad that this helped, thanks again for the sub 👍 give me a shout if there's anything else you'd like covered

[@aztrox1380]

thank you for this guide

[@supplyjam]

Thank you, hope that it helps 😊👍

[@thundernorse1098]

I had my prisoners set to yard time, they all stay in their cells or the canteen. Nobody stays in the yard. When I set it to freetime, everyone goes to the yard. If yard time is freetime, why do they have freetime?

[@supplyjam]

Hey, thank for the comment Yes so there is a few of these within regime that are if I'm honest...pretty useless. Shower time is useless if they have showers in their cells so they just shower in freetime. What I've noticed and going to cover soon is that the best regime to use is work/freetime, if they want to work..they work, if they want freetime they do freetime and covers off all their needs.

[@apsoloman46]

@@supplyjamThanks for the insight

[@supplyjam]

No problem 😊

[@mobinaber2551]

Hey, thanks for the guide. Can you do a guide about managing finances early on? Building individual cells is expensive, and if you keep them in holding cells it means even more trouble with all the fighting going on. Are dorms worth it? Thanks!

[@supplyjam]

Hey, thanks for the comment 😁 So I can definitely do something that'll cover that, for now what I can say is that even though cells are expensive they are probably the best route to take, you can do dorms to save money however that then starts impacting their privacy need, so eventually you'll get more hassle from this later on. Holding cells are a waste of time, I never bother, they go straight from reception to a cell, I just set the intake to fill to capacity then you can't overfill. Hope this helps and I'll get something out for early game best practices 👍

[@importedyeet340]

please make more guides!!!

[@supplyjam]

Thanks for the comment mate 😁 Of course, as long as there is something I can create a guide on then there will be more to come. Anything you can think of?

[@thomasfriedlander7208]

Is there a difference between the effects of FreeTime and Work/FreeTime? I usually choose Work/FreeTime in order to occupy as many inmates as possible, but is that worse for them in any way?

[@supplyjam]

Thanks for the comment 😊 To be fair if you may find that people work a lot more, or attend programmes more but don't have as much freetime... its interesting... May have to see if there is a difference 🤔

[@MrTeaRex]

Could you maybe do one that talks about the best policy in this game?

[@supplyjam]

Hey, thanks for taking the time to comment 😁 I can do, I've got a couple of other projects lined up at the minute but I can probably do one on policies after that. Is there something specific you wanted to know I could answer for you now?

[@jayadashaikh8807]

Very Well explain, But can you make a breif video in program and shedular

[@supplyjam]

Thank you 😁 glad you liked the video. Funny you should say that, I'm just finishing off a different video then I was thinking to do that next 👍

[@jayadashaikh8807]

Great I will wait For That video you explanation is very simple and easy to understand@@supplyjam

[@supplyjam]

Thank you 😁

[@dlcforces8165]

I have an issue with programs. None of my prisoners are ever interested in anything other than parole hearings. Any idea how to fix this?

[@supplyjam]

Hey, thanks for the comment 😁 Hmmmm... Ok thats an odd one, do you have work slots set up on the prisoners regime? As they'll attend programmes during those times instead of work?

[@dlcforces8165]

@@supplyjam after going to the hell scape known as Reddit. I managed to figure out what was wrong. Apparently there’s a policy where I have to select what type of jobs each prisoner type can have.

[@supplyjam]

Aaaaah, glad you found out what the problem was. Bit random that the policy was switched off though 🤔

[@thomasfriedlander7208]

Another issue I found that stopped interest in programs was suppression and punishment. Try reducing the number of armed guards if possible, and lower the penalties assigned to infractions under the policy tab.

[@roelwieggers4181]

My prisoners work 10 hours. My prison is designed with efficiency in mind from thier cell they pass the shower and after that the canteen. directly after that the workshop.

[@supplyjam]

Sounds like a decent setup 😊 I don't really bother with a shower room so much, I normally put it in their cell, saves time and improves the cell quality. Thanks for the comment 👍

[@roelwieggers4181]

@@supplyjam i think you're right. I have a hour scheduled for shower but they can also do that in thier free time maybe. My prisoners also get 8 hours sleep. I can exchange some sleep hours for free time i think.

[@supplyjam]

Definitely, I don't bother with shower, they all do it in freetime, and sleep I give them 6 hours.... means more time for work 😈🤣 and they don't complain

[@JJ_Beats._.]

I have a hydration need but i dont see it on your needs?is this a dlc thing?

[@supplyjam]

Hey, I believe it is, what dlcs do you have? I don't have all of them at the moment. Thanks for the comment 👍

[@JJ_Beats._.]

@@supplyjam I've got future tech,undead,free for life,gangs,perfect storm,second chances,cleared for transfer,psych ward and aficionado. Didn't even realise hydration was a thing until all my prisoners were rioting due to hydration 😂

[@supplyjam]

Haha epic 🤣 I've not got perfect storm or aficionado so I imagine it belongs to one of those two. I'll keep an eye open for that one when I get it 😁

[@DeBelgischeBloempie]

how do i split the regimes ?

[@supplyjam]

Hey thanks for the comment 😁 So if you want different regimes you just have to be in line with that security level(I.e minimum sec) when your changing the regime and it should then split the regime between minimum and the rest of the security levels, just repeat for others. Hope that helps 👍

[@DeBelgischeBloempie]

@@supplyjam Thank you for replying. It works now.

[@supplyjam]

No problem, glad it's sorted 👍

[@onur_eren48]

can you give steam profile link?

[@supplyjam]

Hi there, do you mean my personal profile on steam? As I don't have one that I upload to, I only do KZbin at the minute