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[Miuramir]

Except that all your wood cutter/haulers, hunters and fishers who get hungry while outside the fort will head straight for your prison food stocks.

Why not just put a snack bar in the area between the outside and the barracks?  This will give the outside folks someplace to eat & drink, and speed up snack time for those training in the barracks as well. 

Stopping a job to trek across the fortress for food and drink is a big time-waster; having the food deployed near where your important dwarves work and train means those trips are done by haulers, not legendary masons, axelords, or whatever. 

[Urist McShire]

I know that I've got a small food/booze stockpile and adjacent dining room just underneath my barracks outside of my front gates. This also allows my military dwarves to eat/resupply there while training instead of running through the whole fortress to get to the main dining hall. I plan on placing the prison several z-levels below that and locked away in a cubby hole somewhere further away on the map away from direct traffic routes to avoid dwarves from eating from it.

[Tirion]

Alternatively, you could put wells and ginormous stacks of prepared meals in your prison. With 4 stacks of Turkey Egg Roast [137] within reach, a citizen taking one unit away for a snack isn't a big deal.

[UnicodingUnicorn]

Or how about switching the circumstances, and building the prison in the main food stockpile?

[§k]

thats what i did. my booze and roast stockpile is on the roof of a tower. prisoners are chained there. they fought off some vultures trying to steal.

[Urist Da Vinci]

FYI 0.40.12 had the following bugfix:

(*) Made caged/chained people request water/food with proper frequency

Perhaps it is no longer necessary to have prisoners feed themselves?

[Flare]

Try surrounding your prison with food stockpiles, all 26 3-dimensional surrounding areas.

This is such dwarven overkill, I can't even tell if you're serious.

It works, what other consideration is there?