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Revision as of 01:18, 5 December 2009
A jail is a special room used in dwarven justice. It is designated from a restraint or from a metal cage. If ropes are used, prisoners have been observed to be able to break free from time to time, especially during tantrums.
Your fort's sheriff or captain of the guard will request chains, ropes or metal cages to be designated as jails. The current number of ropes or chains needed is indicated on the z Status menu, under the Justice submenu. The number of them required is one-tenth the current population, rounded down to the nearest integer.
Dwarves who are chained in a jail will be unable to sleep unless a bed is placed adjacent to the chain. Due to an oversight as of v0.27.169.33a, dwarves without bedrooms will happily sleep on the beds in the jail, tying up the beds and preventing them from being used by the prisoner.
Happy prisoners
Prison is a great place for dwarves to become terminally upset. Generally inmates are still suffering from the bad thoughts that caused them to tantrum and become imprisoned in the first place. Just being in prison makes dwarves very unhappy, and since your other dwarves will only bring them water to drink, the lack of alcohol makes it worse. To prevent an infinite string of tantrums and ever-lengthening prison sentences, it is a good idea to make your prison a very nice place. Engraved walls and placing high-quality statues for the prisoner to admire are a good start. Dwarves will also admire their own chains, if they are high quality or made of expensive metal. Note that if you place a table you can overlap an office with the jail which will allow an imprisoned Manager to manage jobs, among other things. If you place a tiny alcohol stockpile next to the chain, the prisoner can help himself to alcohol, avoiding both the unhappy thoughts from alcohol deprivation, and the need for your other dwarves to supply him with water. Remember, a drunk prisoner is a happy prisoner.
Executing prisoners
If you don't want to rehabilitate your prisoners, you can always build your restraints in a death chamber. However, this means you'll lose all your unhappy legendary dwarves, and their loved ones will have very unhappy thoughts, potentially leading to a tantrum chain.
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