I'm having a lot of trouble figuring out when I have too much or too little of this stuff, so I end up overbuilding itGuides. 7] By Ninja Squirrel. A room for preparing food to be eaten at the Canteen or the Nursery. Visuals and Graphics ; By Jjordan9905; 4. Chair • Chair (Office) • Filing Cabinet • Office Desk •. Workers bring goods into the shop and place them on. If no prisoners are assigned to the room, janitors will carry out the job. Low quantity meals are composed of 1 ingredient. 5. Help, My canteens say no prisoners are assigned to them. In smaller prisons, I normally have about 1 guard. #1. Hope this helps. It is used to reveal fog of war in unguarded areas of your prison. I have not hindered them in any way to entering the other rooms. Cooks will not collect dirty trays from the staffrooms to wash them in the kitchen. A Guard maintains security at the prison, keeping an eye on prisoners, subduing riots or fights, and transporting prisoners to and from Solitary, the Infirmary, and other locations. • Your guards will have much better possibilities to handle fights if they happen and thus avoid death. You need to unzone the whole room and zone it again as a canteen. Since they cooked though, it might be OK in Logistics. The capacity of a dormitory is 1 prisoner per 4 squares, with 1 exception. I tried a women prison, and am working out all the extra requirements. In logistics make sure you assign that staffroom to a kitchin (hold shift and click to rooms/canteens for multiple assignments) 4. Yes. 3 of my guards chill in the canteen too. Prisoners will use Laundry Baskets to collect and distribute clothes around your prison. despite the fact that it is unused as. #2. Your staff will prefer to eat in the Staff Canteen, but can eat their meals in a Staff Room until you have all of the prerequisites for one. You'll need jail doors to secure buildings or proper gates on fences. These entities cannot be hired independently and will only spawn when a dog handler is. I marked the protective custody cells in the Deployment screen, I placed a new protective custody-only canteen right next to the cells, and I made anyone who has those cells go to the protective custody-only canteen in the Logistics screen, but my prisoners keep going to the shared canteen. Fits into a 7 X 11 or 9 X 10 block. The optimum size of a canteen is 11x9 squares (10x9 also works fine). Also, you want roughly 2 Fridges per 3-5 Cookers and the same goes for Sinks. I've had it on fast forward and they're just sitting there. Closed Circuit Television, or more simply CCTV, is a camera surveillance object available in Prison Architect unlocked by researching surveillance in bureaucracy screen. Guards are the primary and most important security staff available to hire. Less fixed costs, and a bit less LAG. Requirements The first step is to use bureaucracy to unlock micromanagement, Once researched it unlocks advanced features that allow you to have control. Result: The cooks in the 2nd kitchen went down to the first,. Guards are terrible about moving them around. Sell for several million. Bump. Tutorial Room sizes are far too small? When rebuilding after the first fire, the games suggests a kitchen of 12 m/sq and a canteen of 20 m/sq. Other then that use the logistics and use food deployment, red dot are for prisoners to go to canteen yellow are from kitchen to canteen, make sure prisoners go to canteen not to kitchen, and kitchen are assigned to canteen. ago. Prisoners need to be working to have money to buy at snack machines so if you're not putting them to work this may not work that well. I have two questions, 1. lissa_981 Oct 18, 2015 @ 6:36pm. - Recreation need Radiator -. 1 serving table can feed 80/40/26 prisoners (low/med/high meal quantity) On another note. A patched version of Prison Architect meant that rooms would not extend past the confines of any door. Since usually you build walls around the toilets,it will FAIL the Staffroom requirements of Size (your toilet might be 1x2 or 1x3). Gym. Requirements The first step is to use bureaucracy to unlock micromanagement, Once researched it unlocks advanced features that allow you to have control. 6:00 am: Maximum security moves to the canteen for one hour. 1:5 Med. Therefore: Build a prison fence to close off access to the perimter of your prison. Wages: $100. Select the prisoners you want to assign to the canteen by left-clicking and dragging the mouse to create a selection box around them. The submenus "Food Distribution" and. Grants Mod. Also: the question of shower time is more related to how much time do your prisoners need to get from where they are to the actual shower. I've never seen this happen even when trays end up in the yard. 69K subscribers in the prisonarchitect community. They're more efficient than 1x3 in terms of walls per square of space, but less efficient in terms of how many you can jam into an unconstrained area. It's a bug. Prison Architect. If you play with staff needs, it's recommended that you have one central staffroom/canteen combination. Reply I have noticed the growth is far from lienear, Like I said I'm trying out some stratagies that limit how many guards I need, and yes Nefai I am using the deployment schedualer at night I have 4 guards deployed plus snipers, during dawn I have them in the canteen and shower, dusk i have them in the canteen, and during the day (free time, and work/free time) i have them in the canteen, yard and. The prison populations of California, Texas, and the Federal Bureau of Prisons each declined by more than 22,500 from 2019 to 2020, accounting for 33% of the total prison population decrease. I am currently pre building a massive prision thanks to a 15mil prison sale. I have done this. Make one of your more centralised staffrooms large enough to have canteen equipment (tables etc) AND a kitchin sink (s) 3. I ran quick test through it for version 2. I've tried left clicking at the start and right clicking at the end, and visa versa. After that, they will sit down on a Bench or Table / Table&Chair and eat it. If you let all your prisoners live in quality "10. Cooks will place food at the serving table once they are fully cooked. StaffRoom – No Prisoner Assigned Warning – Steam Community. ) #2. ago. Indoors is a requirement for many of the rooms, with only a few exceptions (Solitary, Storage, Yard, and Kennel, among them). Cells are small rooms where prisoners live through-out their stay in detention. 1 serving table serves 80 meals, 1 cook provides 20 meals, 4 cooks per serving. Make sure you have trays, this is accually a common issue with perma solitery/LD prisons, the trays don't find thier way back to the canteens. Also have a full serving unit in the staffroom that isn't used as well. - your prisoners have to walk long ways to the central canteen position, if you build the canteen not central its getting even worse. They cook a minor amount before canteen time and then cook most of the food during canteen time. If you do not have a wall or fence all the way around your prison the game will not consider your prison secure and thus will not allow prisoners to make their way to the canteen to eat. Reply captainosome101 •. I've even tried building a 15 x 30 size room with those items in it. Prison Architect. Other Information: None provided. Such proportions let you place 4 serving tables, 20 benches and 20 tables (therefore they let you feed 80 prisoners at a time). You actually only need one table. They can even spawn with a gun! You might think adding guard dogs and metal detectors would be enough but they will not detect everything however full body search in reception will take away everything the prisoner is trying. This should fix your issue. For example, if you built segregated toilets for your prisoners within a canteen, and designated the entire area as a canteen, you would find yourself with tiny individual canteen areas in each single toilet. lissa_981 Oct 18, 2015 @ 6:36pm. The galley shower/canteen combo will be open on both sides to a three-tile hallway, then large jail doors into the cell blocks. If you want to check out the original google sheet by u/GiantB you can. #5. 0) was based off I believe alpha17, so is very out of date. 5:00 am: Maximum security takes a mandatory shower while Medium security is moved from sleep to lockdown and hopefully starts using their toilets. Showing 1 - 7 of 7 comments. Medium quantity meals are composed of 2 ingredients. This is a “hot” topic with 35,600 searches/month. 70K subscribers in the prisonarchitect community. The kitchen is where cooks prepare meals. I find that ~ 1 sink / 50 to 60 prisoners works well. Not sure what to do. However, the max sec peeps were not eating, and the canteen said no one was assigned to eat. About 120 fridge 120 stoves. Since usually you build walls around the toilets,it will FAIL the Staffroom requirements of Size (your toilet might be 1x2 or 1x3). All they do is provider clean trays. Have been having a few problems with staffrooms and canteens: The staffroom was adjacent to the canteen. I have staff doors leading out of the building with the holding rooms. Staff food comes in by truck (cooks don't prepare it). Such proportions let you place 4 serving tables, 20 benches and 20 tables (therefore they let. 3) Your prison must be worth at least $50,000. #2. For maximum efficiency, there should. A serving table can hold four Food Types. Jump to latest Follow Reply. Prison Architect > General Discussions > Topic Details. i guess i should open a second canteen to see if its working, the prison is a number of updates old, so maybe something got broken #10. If you build walls to mark out the path it should become legitimate. ago. For those of you who like building a large chunk of their prison before hiring guards/ bringing in prisoners, I found this problem fixed for me simply by hiring guards. After building the foundations, I found the the items like cookers and sinks were impossible to build. I have about 600+ prisoners and 110 cooks. Along with the mod Tweaked Staff Food, it also has a thirst need and water fountain. Before you research it, you can feed your staff by putting serving tables in staff rooms, then staff snacks will be delivered to your prison and brought to the serving table. Also sofas in there as well. In future maybe Devs will actually provide a need for the staff canteen especially as we have both staff needs and home (/prison) grown food, you could implement a cooked meal to negate the cost of importing food So, in order to feed my inmates, I've built a kitchen and canteen. V • D • E. The kitchen is only used for sending cooks for cleaning trays in the staff room/canteen assigned to it. Every serving table allows 5 prisoners to grab a meal, holds (ideally) 80 portions of food and has about 40 trays. #1. Kitchens need to be linked to Canteens to be able to supply the food. Similar Meaning: “Prison. Typically, the ratio for refrigerators to cookers is 1:2, but having a 1:1, 2:1 or even higher ratio means that food is delivered to your prison half as often. 0 and everything still works. After the update I made a new prison and the kitchens didn't produce food and the prisoners starve. The yard's the same way. Emmote 30 mai 2014 à 17h23. All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos Workshop News Guides Reviews. Well the problem is that in my prison every cell-area has got his own canteen. During eat time in the Regime, Prisoners will head to the nearest accessible canteen, take a full Food Tray, and will sit at a random Table. 1. The CCTV. Before starting this guide, it is highly recommended that you complete the campaigns first. make toilets for your staff but make sure you do not assign the toilets within the Staffroom Room area. Dirty Trays Everywhere = SOLVED (partially) Okay, I have posted this problem before but never got a clear answer of why it starts to happen. Dog handlers depend on your prison size and layout. Hire the Farm Worker staff member. It is recommended to have two or three hours of work before meal times. Yellow means your gaurds think the area is unsecured. Additionally, if I romve the room of the blue canteen, every cell block gets assigned to the orange canteen. you have to hold the shift key, to make multiple connections. A subreddit dedicated to the game Prison Architect, developed by Introversion Software and sold to…Toughness (HP) 1. 1. ago. - Juggle inmate needs with security concerns, infrastructure, and the ever-looming budget. You need far more Cookers or far less Serving Tables. All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos Workshop News Guides Reviews. . Wait 5 seconds and click on the blue ‘download now. #3. Unrelated, but storage doesn't need to be inside. Especially the. Here are the best content by the team thcsnguyenthanhson. So, in more specific: Prisoner A (Med Sec) goes to the canteen at 8am to get his breakfast. Originally posted by Havoc3D: You have to research Deployment. So just put one table in the canteen and the rest just benches. Hey guys, a while ago I launched a website as an alternative for the prison architect google sheet and I just wanted to announce that I just finished it! All the sections now include the power calculations. AccelExhilar Jan 4,. CharlesDarwin59 • 5 yr. They are also good in the Library . The infirmary is the room where injured Prisoners, Guards and Staff will be brought for treatment. I usually keep 2-3 on sniffing-duty and 4 constantly patrolling for tunnels. Assigning multiple canteens/cell blocks to one kitchen/laundry/canteen: Hold SHIFT while left-clicking each destination. If your prison likes to riot I would have at least two on hand. One cook supplied with five cookers, five fridges, and several sinks will feed an average of 20 prisoners per two hour long mealtime in your regime. Feed 80 prisoners with 6 cooks, 4 cookers, 7 fridge and 3 sinks. The problem is that all my staff is "pissed off" and sometimes some guards beat on prisoners with no reason. - your prisoners have to walk long ways to the central canteen position, if you build the canteen not central its getting even worse. The wiki-Article seems outdated, in stating that one needs an hour of shower per day. com] Put a metal detector on EVERY exit; Canteen doesn't need to have a door, and it's better to have a 2m hole in the walleasily by clicking them within the list also to locate them by hovering your mouse over them. But just out of curiosity what is your guard-to-prisoner ratio? #1. Staff needs is an installment into prison architect that make staff have needs. Solodric Jan 4, 2017 @ 5:03pm. you can't set shorter then 1 hour blocks, so that's what you got to work with. 0) Hello all! Thank you for all the players who provide feedback and critic over the calculator that has been used thousands of times. In the Cleared for Transfer DLC, prisoners will consider the sector grading during the decision tree for. Fiddle with food distribution in logistics. I think you have serving table in the kitchen designated room. A dormitory is a multi-occupant cell. Canteen: Oct. Unfortunately prisoners aren't using the yard during yard time, sometimes a few will go out to use the exercise equipment but that is it and will stay inside their cells. Creating a holding cell for Protective Custody only, while there are no holding cells for "shared" will work too. Stoic making punishment (such as permanent lockdown or solitary) not. Maintain a good guard to prisoner ratio. The 2 cooks can be 2 staff cooks (ideal) but some or all can be prisoners, but if you have a kitchen that only as prisoners working in it (no staff. Your goal is to create and manage your own prison system in the way you want it. Basic Tutorial covering the setup of a simple Kitchen and Canteen. b. Im at a loss, i love this game, and love the idea of staff needs, but a prison is unplayable if i use staff needs. Either to your kitchen or a tiny staff sink room next to the staff canteen. ago. #2. I find it best to use secure doors so the guards don't have to enter the inmates ell to give them food. See the picture for an example Canteen. The deployment screen shows the various areas of your prison and WHO can go to them. 60 cooks with high meal quantity. For every 2 washing machines, have 4 ironing boards and 8 laundry baskets. ago. Hope it helps. Objects. #2. Need help figuring this out. You're going to need to build an actual building using the Foundation tool. In this episode of the tutorial series, we explore the basic requirements of the canteen as well as some tips and best practices. #3. Sep 1, 2013 @ 10:56am. #1. You can expand it past 2 as well, 3, 4, 5 canteens works easily, set one up for Protective Custody, one for Supermax, no problem. Do whatever Vidkun said, it's exactly right. With Update 27, Introversion think they’ve fixed it. Decorative. You are reading about prison architect how to assign canteen. Canteen needs only one table (prisoners eat on benches anyway), but to make it aestethic it's better to use {benches}/2. Either way, you have too many for your current capacity. Yes I Have 5 I believe In Their And About 12 cooks for 100 prisoners 3 always in the canteen with trouble #2. Trixi Sep 25, 2015 @ 10:30am. Yep, it goes this way, cooks take the food to the canteen, gaurds take the food from the canteens to the cells. Also: the question of shower time is more related to how much time do your prisoners need to get from where they are to the actual shower. Yes, it works. It’s tempting to have armies of well-armed guards roaming the hallways, but doing so will raise the danger level of the prison which can be an issue. Prison Architect > General Discussions > Topic Details. Generally I use anywhere between 1 cooks per 3 cookers (2 hour meals, canteen next to kitchen), to a 1:1 ratio (1 hour meals,. 1-1-1 ratio of sinks and fridges and cookers. r/prisonarchitect. -Workers these are the builders of your prison who construct the walls, place the floors and. Then you have to examine the path to the canteen. Designate a Garbage area in the space just below the Holding. The yard is a room which may be built inside or outside. Display mode Canteen: Sept. Modified 7 years, 1 month ago. Please provide a valid number. . They are most useful in the Canteen and Kitchen. Prison Architect > General Discussions > Topic Details. Throughout their stay at your facility, Prisoners will always try to complete activities or tasks that will satiate their physical and psychological needs. Your WORKMEN bring food to staff canteen, NOT cooks. On a side note, just my opinion, that one office you built looks like it could be 4. It also fulfills a prisoners 'freedom' need and several others if relevant objects are placed. Verios44 Sep 20, 2015 @ 12:19pm. Making another kitchen and canteen is usually something. Loaded an old save and that kitchen produces food. It also fulfills a prisoners 'freedom' need and several others if relevant objects are placed. Typically, the ratio for refrigerators to cookers is 1:2, but having a 1:1, 2:1 or even higher ratio means that food is delivered to your prison half as often. In the Laundry Distribution section you can see. 0!! READ ME FIRST:,PA Calculator has served over 954 survey contributers and over 126129 prisons! Please DO NOT request ACCESS it will not be given, to use this sheet go to file -> make copy,live resul. Business, Economics, and Finance. This prison was made a while before the update, transfers are enabled This bug has made min sec a worse security to be in compared to med sec, which should be naturally slightly worse than min sec Edit: The rooms are custom security for min med and max. Add more couches. Information a ** Created by GiantB (reddit) Shadow Snatcher (steam) ** !!Updated for Version 2. But both buildings, standing there. As your prison grows sometimes you can tweak this with a few more (or less) of each, but those numbers are a good solid start point for all prisons. My suggest: Split kitchen to 2~4 kitchens without wall between for reform, and remove wall between kitchen and canteen, set meals to High/High for health score. In the upper right corner of the screen the number of current prisoners is displayed / the number of max prisoners your prison can handle. For high security. I tried having both the yard and the canteen be shared by two inmates (prisoner 1 and 2 share canteen and prison 1 and 3 share yard) by having a 2h canteen with timed doors that would open/close at 1h (same with the yard) but I couldn't get the prisoners to go back to their rooms as technically it was still canteen/yard time. Cooks won't cook. You must first research deployment and set a canteen to staff only to make a staff canteen. Frazzledragøn the Trustworthy Nov 13, 2015 @ 7:27am. A dormitory can hold one prisoner per four squares of space, given there are enough of beds for all prisoners. Canteen Glitch. See also: Oak Table, Outdoor Table, Wooden Table, Oval Table. Menu. Objects. #3. prodevelopment Feb 12, 2015 @ 12:29am. ( or to be complete 50/14 ) It doesn;t matter if i build more cells or solitary's the number still says 14. I have spent some time and finally found the solution/permanent fix to the irritating staff meals issues!The issue where food trays are not cleaned and resto. Wolf202020 · 8/10/2015. Information a ** Created by GiantB (reddit) Shadow Snatcher (steam) ** !!Updated for Version 2. Cells appear open even when on default mode. edu. You dont need a sink in there. my staff canteens are well stocked already. A Workshop Item for Prison Architect. How do I make them only go to the canteen I. The person with the longest travel time is the inmate in the top left corner, who needs like 25 minutes to get into the canteen. Yeah I get the. Built 2 prisons which took a while to make sure it wasn't just a glitch in one game. You also have to make sure that the cooks have an easy. Everything is connected just right when looking at the. Escape Mode will automatically start if you meet the failure condition of allowing too many deaths in a short. I have done this in numerous configurations. Therefore guards should be stationed in the yards. You also have to make sure that the cooks have an easy. Cooks likely to ignore the fact, that the staff canteen ran out of trays, and they won't refill it. Without a cooker, a cook cannot prepare prison meals. In order to be arranged, you must first construct the parole room according to its requirements, then activate the program via the programs tab in reports. go to the game in your library, right click it, go to properties on the bottom of the tab, click local files, browse local files, then right click the . Discover. * FOOD: High quantity and low quality. Tried adding benches and tables to the staffroom with no luck. , but in larger prisons, you have the option of optimizing patrols to use less guards. Compatible with the latest release of Prison Architect!Jungle, Future Tech, Undead, Free For Life, Second Chances, The Glasshouse, Going Green, Island Bound, Psych Ward & Cleared for Transfer. Prison/kitchen ratio . When the prisoner has something better to do, such as classes, work or rehab programs, they will go there. In particular, your guards need to eat, but due to AI wierdness, trays won't be brought to your staffroom serving tables or staff-only canteens (the only two places where guards will eat regularly). Both has some disadvantages: Advantages 1 canteen: - no problem with assigned from cells to canteen. Cookers require a direct electrical connection. I find it best to use secure doors so the guards don't have to enter the inmates ell to give them food. Staffroom Trays. Unlike a Holding Cell which is meant to temporarily house prisoners, a dormitory is designed to hold them indefinitely (like a normal cell). To answer your question, my best prison has about 1 guard to 6 prisoners, but this is also a large prison. Assuming the default medium variety medium quantity meal. The problem could be that your prisoners is not having enough meal time. Staff does not eat. The capacity of a dormitory is 1 prisoner per 4 squares, with 1 exception. This is a typical distribution of a canteen: B B B B B B B B B B B B T T T T T T T T T T T T B B B B B B B B B B B B However, tables are not needed at all. Usually I have a small 30 cell area with a small canteen which is completely locked off from the rest of the prison for protective custody level prisoners, so they don't mix with the rest of the prison. Rogue 30 mai 2014 à 14h13. Its cut off in the picture, but I do in fact have many sofa in the staff room. May 9, 2015 @ 7:57am that's not many cooks, I wind up with around 30 cooks per 100 prisoners. Logistics allows you to assign jobs to prisoners, and where the Canteen and Laundry are distributed to. It looked like all of their cells were open so I ran a lockup and disabled it, so the cells appear normal, but it didn't change anything. GC13 Nov 28, 2013 @ 9:28pm. Go to the "Deployment" menu in Prison Architect. To expand on the other reply, prisoners need an 'allowed' path to get where they need to be, and you can set certain areas of the prison to be allowed for certain prisoner levels, and there are places that by default they aren't allowed to go. Key Features:Customized ConfinementAllocate resources to optimize your compound, but don’t restrict the flow of the crowd lest you encounter a flood, fire, fight, or full-blown riot. Fire and re-hire. Proteus Sep 1, 2013 @ 12:16pm. You need a working kitchen with fridge, cooker, sink, and a cook to work it. If that's the case, look up the "Prison Architect Calculator" spreadsheet. It just says that there's no Canteen available. Prison Architect. So sacking and spawning cooks might help this out. (edited by A Fandom user) 0. The cost and supplies of food shipments are becoming a national concern. Minimum prisoners generally have the lowest sentence time, which makes them excellent for that $3,000 bonus you get if a paroled prisoner leaves prison without. Just google "Prison Architect Kitchen Ratio" or something like that. Oct 11, 2015 @ 9:43am. #2. you can't set shorter then 1 hour blocks, so that's what you got to work with. The ratio you need will constantly be changing based on the composition of your current population. This should fix your issue. Tl;dr My guard to prisoner ratio is about. So I just built a second canteen and I have 4 identical cell blocks right now. Average rating 5 / 5. Criminally Insane. One cook supplied with five cookers, five fridges, and several sinks will feed an average of 20 prisoners per two hour long mealtime in your regime. This for example is my max security design. Follow these tips and you'll have a successful jail on your hands!. For Prison Architect on the PlayStation 4, FAQ by barticle. (Alpha 14h) Canteens and Kitchen. Sooo, I have my prison with abput 200 inmates and all went cool. Cooks will place food at the serving table once they are fully cooked. Both has some disadvantages: Advantages 1 canteen: - no problem with assigned from cells to canteen. There are 7 rooms that have grading: Cell. Room grading is used to create worse and better rated sectors and encourage prisoners to work on their behaviour in order to be transferred to better graded cell and/or sector as well as be punished by being sent to worse cell/sector if they misbehave. Access to this option can be gained after hiring the Warden - before that it's. 1 Answer. Joe_Fairplay • 4 yr. Prison Architect Tutorial. Prison Architect Calculator (V3. The new cellblock up top can be assigned manually perfectly fine, but for some reason we can't work out, the lower one will ONLY automatically assign to the northern one, and can't be moved anywhere else. All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos Workshop News Guides Reviews. Originally posted by Sperber: Originally posted by blipadouzi: As far as I can tell, Waste Bins are just for decoration, they serve no real purpose. The. 1 serving table - 4 cookers - 2 fridges - 2 sinks - 2 cooks. 11 Keep Security At A Reasonable Level. Cookers can prepare a maximum of two large quantities of food at a time, with a maximum of 10 portions of food. Home; Boards; News; Q&A; Community; Contribute; Games; 3DS; Android; Board/Card; iOS; PC; PlayStation 3; PlayStation 4; PlayStation 5; Switch;. exe file, looks like a small inmate, go to properties, click disable auto dsi. Once it begins to pile up just use the "Sell Objects" tool and run it across your Workshop. If you're unaware, there is a beta feature that turns on 'staff needs'. Yes, I have logistics and Micro Management unlocked No, nothing prevents them from entering the canteen, neither objects nor the sectors (the path from the cell block to the canteen is shared)I also got an image for you. Saw 0; Press 0; Tables 0; Profit per day $0. Feed 100 prisoners with 7 cooks, 5 cookers, 9 fridge and 4 sinks. 1:10 Low. In the logistics you can see how many foods are needed for each of the canteens. Cookers are forms of kitchen equipment used solely for the preparation, or cooking, of ingredients. Prisoner will take a clean food tray and put cooked ingredients on it. I read somewhere 8 prisoners per guard and I kept that ratio for a while, but there was no trouble, so now it's 12. Built kitcheb canteen seperated with a wall, one square gap to allow chef to serve up food built holding cell opposite All sorted now must of been some kind of security problem that wouldn't allow them to be assigned to teh canteen #13. Hauptseite. However, my Medium Sec cell blocks won't link to my Medium Sec Canteen. It may seem absurd when running your prison, but having too much security can actually cause more problems. To make kitchen efficient, use this calculator [docs. EACH 10TH PRISONER: High security: 15 guards each 10th prisoner can be rolled down to 10 if you have a good system and everyone's happy.