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The Reception room is where your prisoners will be sent when they arrive at your prison. Prisoners will need to be escorted to this room from the delivery zone by a guard.

Your prisoners will be strip-searched and any contraband will be taken off them, and items will be searched. They will receive new clothes that are provided by the Laundry. If there is no laundry, their dirty clothes will be put back on them. After the prisoner has been searched and has received new clothing he/she will be escorted to his cell by a guard.

There needs to be many available guards to facilitate the process as the reception is labor intensive.

Having two or more reception rooms set to different security sectors will have guards immediately escorting new inmates from the delivery zone to the applicable reception room. That way you can have prisoners moved to a different reception in another parts of the prison, which is helpful when you configure(Logistics) which road, dock or helipad that will receive which prisoners based on their security level.

Tips

  • Reception is a cheap and cost-effective room when it comes to cutting down intake of contraband to your prison.
  • Add metal detectors and guard dogs to catch any contraband prisoners might have which guards failed to find.
  • Specified entrance- if a riot were to happen, reception would be the final blockade for escaping prisoners, and the first room for outside armed guards to enter.

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