Common Room Prison Architect Guide

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The common room is a place where inmates can relax. You can place items like TVs, pool tables or other machines used for recreation or exercises. Prisoners use such equipment with pleasure - of course as far as the regime lets them by offering free time.

You can easily notice that recreational objects can be placed in any room - the common room therefore isn't necessarily needed. However if you feel a need to create a separate zone in which prisoners can rest (and you don't want them to do that in the, for example, yard), you can consider making such an investment. In such case you should assure enough space, as having too many prisoners in one room almost always leads to trouble.

Curiously, TVs don't require electricity to work, so you don't have the install cables in this room.