Prison Architect provides you with a team of workers, a small pool of start-up cash, and some raw materials, and leaves you to plan and build the structures you’ll need to house prisoners. The main function, and the part you’ll be spending the most time on, is actual prison complex planning and building. Prisoner reform is only a small part of the incredible depth of gameplay in Prison Architect. The game shines in forcing you to re-think your own approaches to handling those offenders in a way that is both adequately authoritarian and reformative. If it were up to you, how would we treat those offenders once we’ve caged them away? Would you demand respect through authoritarian shows of dominance and violence? Or, would you take the Scandinavian approach to reform, and place your prisoners in a gentle field, surrounded by comfortable furnishings and at-home nature? In the brilliant prison building simulator Prison Architect, you’re free to decide the nature of punishment for society’s worst offenders. No one wants to live surrounded by murderers, thieves, and frauds, and so when we identify those foul characters in our midsts, we shackle them and send them off to rot in a dirty cell, far away from the gentle bosom of civil society. While the politics surrounding criminal punishment and the prison system remain controversial and deeply dividing, the one thing that we can all agree on is that prisons are a necessity.
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