The Valuation tab can be found under Reports. An accountant is needed to unlock this tab. Valuation gives an overview of your prison value, including the value of your Staff, prisoner capacity, and objects. It also shows any penalties earned for deaths or escapes.
The total value of your prison can be sold to fund a new prison on a new map. Your prison can only be sold once but you can continue playing on the map. Additionally, you may sell shares in your prison, at a rate of 10% of your prison's value, excluding cash. You may buy back these shares at the same rate of 10% of your prison's value, including cash. You can sell up to 50% of your prison this way, and you can buy back at any time, however the price can change.
By reselling your prison after the first time, you can continue to expand your prison further, i.e. you can start a very low funded prison and eventually work your way up to a very big and well funded prison. However, if you have sold 20% shares, you will only receive 80% of the price when you sell the entire prison.
In order to sell your prison you have to meet these requirements:
- An accountant at your prison with their own office.
- $50,000 minimum positive prison value.
- 20 or more prisoners.
- No recent deaths or escapes.
Prison Value[]
The following are components in prison value. All are bonuses add to your valuation (except stock and materials).
- Bricks and Mortar (which improves with the condition/cleanliness of your prison).
- Fixtures and Fittings: Objects such as beds, office desks, toilets, etc.
- Stock and materials: Consists of food, sheet metal, laundry, bleach and other supplies in storage.
- Staff: Staff purchase cost divided by 2(For example guard costs $500, staff cost increases by $250)
- Prisoner Capacity ($500 per prisoner): The number of cells you have, excluding holding cells or solitary confinement.
- Cash: How much cash you have on-hand.
- Bank Loans: The cost of loans taken, reduces the cost of prison by the corresponding value
- Starting grant: Constant, for balance when selling a prison, can't be removed. Base value = -$20,000-starting funds value when creating a new prison (if you start with $0, the starting grant will be -$20,000. When starting with $30,000, the starting grant will be -$50,000, and so on).
Safety and Security[]
Penalties may be awarded to any prisons which have experienced any:
- Deaths in the last 24 hours
- Escapes in the last 24 hours
Each penalty is worth $50,000 per prisoner.
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You can sell or buy shares in your prison. Prison ownership is limited to between 50% and 100%. Prison ownership percentage determines the percentage of income from the sale of your prison. The amount of money received from the sale of shares depends on the cost of the prison, excluding cash. With one click you can sell 10% of the prison's share. The purchase price of shares is always 16.6% higher than the sale price. The stock price can be negative (for example, if you take out a large loan), then you will receive money instead of spending it, even when buying shares.
You can sell the prison by clicking on the sell button. When you sell, you will receive the price of the prison multiplied by the percentage of ownership of the prison. After you sell the prison, you will start a new game, plus the funds from the sale of the old prison. If you boot up after you have sold your prison, the buttons for selling and buying shares, as well as the buttons for selling prison will be grayed out, instead it will say: "This prison was sold for: -sale price-"
Tips[]
- An important feature is that the value of the prison changes only when the time is running; during a pause, the value does not change, so it is recommended to sell or buy shares during a pause.
- Before selling your prison, it is recommended to buy back all shares, because as a rule the cost of shares will be lower than the cost of the prison itself
- You can manipulate stock prices to make a lot of money. First of all, sell all the shares to get some money. Next, you need to reduce the cost of prison to a minimum in order to get as much money as possible. The easiest way to do this is to take out a large loan and remove all the camera markings in the room section. Don't forget to unpause the game to update the cost of the prison. Next, buy back all the shares (if your prison has a low value, you can make the price to buy shares negative, which will bring you a lot of money). Next, pay off the loan and mark out the cameras. Repeat the whole process until you have enough money.
- You can also very quickly manipulate your stock price by manipulating your prisoner capacity: build a warehouse and fill it with bunk beds. Designating this warehouse as a dormitory or not will very quickly change your prisoner capacity and therefore your stock price.