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[Cool Guy]

I have decided to take up a challenge from the wiki in making your fortress a jail for dwarven kind, the king will send you inmates (migrants) regularly and it is your job to lock them up, regardless of age or sex. I was wondering what the best way to lock them up would be, I'm going to give them food and drink from a hatch in the roof of their cell but I'm not sure if I should just assign them a room and lock them in which would be the most efficient way of doing it or if I can assign them burrows. How would you do it?

If I'm able to figure this out I think I'll make a little story out of it and post it on the forums.

[Crashmaster]

I think burrows would offer good flexibility for things like prisoner transfer and time in the yard to socialize and start fistfights though you would need to have absolute control of the doors to make it a real prison. I guess I would use both, with draw bridges for cell doors - you're supposed to stand away from the door for a reason prisoner.

[I am Leo]

Multiple burrows that let you rotate dwarves between the yard, the mess hall, the rock breaking gangs and their cells. Have levers to open and close the routes between them. Turn on burrows, open doors, wait for movement, close doors, turn of burrows. If a dwarf sleeps late, no food or water today.

[zeziba]

You dont need bridges for doors, a door linked to a lever will only open and close if the lever is pulled. Make a control room and put a vampire dwarf in there to be your computer for all time.

[Crashmaster]

doors can be blocked open by nearly anything and do not crush slow/ unruly prisoners, therefore bridges are the only choice if you want to retain total control over the opening from a distance and also randomly kill a few prisoners.

[martinuzz]

I did a prison fortress before burrows were added to the game. I got the prisoners to their cells via the military (s)chedule menu, and dropped in food and drinks from above. I'd like to see you try out a system using minecarts for automated prisoner feeding though, that'd be cool.