Emergencies Prison Architect Guide

Last update: 25 May 2016

In Prison Architect, there are three emergency services: firemen, riot police and paramedics.

In order to gain access to them, you have to press the emergencies button in the lower part of the interface (screen above).

Each time you call in an emergency service, you will have to pay $100. If you don't have such money and there's an emergency in your prison, you should be ready to just give up and load a saved game.

Emergency services vary in roles. They are described below:

Firemen

Extinguishes fires stated by the prisoners. An arson usually occurs during riots - regardless of whether the inmates possessed any flammable objects or not. A certain way of defending against fire is using Sprinklers which automatically extinguish nearby fires.

Riot police

As the name suggests, there armoured policemen take care of undisciplined bandits. They enter the prison and pacify all the prisoners they come across.

This rather radical solution is very useful in situation when your guards have either died during the riot or can't handle the mad penitentiaries. You however have to look out with this option, as the sole presence of the riot police inside the prison for too long causes an increased dissatisfaction amongst the prisoners.

Paramedics

The role of paramedics is rather self-explanatory - they cure wounded officials and prisoners. Useful if your doctors have died. Curiously, they can stay inside the prison for an unlimited time and therefore relieve the prison health care (therefore making is needless).