Why does my canteen says no prisoners assigned?
For some reason after i build my canteen it shows a warning that says "No prisoners assigned to this canteen" and i have no idea why. My prison is fenced in and no staff only areas are blocking prisoners routes to the cantten,
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I also had this problem.
I forgot that I'd set the entire outside area to "Staff Only" in the Deployment tab while I was building the new prison area, and ended up starving a bunch of my prisoners for a few days until I figured out why they weren't going to eat! Whoops!
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Why does it say there are no prisoners assigned to this canteen?
Meaning prisoners are being blocked from traversing an area and therefor can't go to the canteen, for example a Staff Only zone. Prisoners could potentially escape on their way to the canteen. Do you have a fence?How do you put a prisoner in a canteen?
How to Assign Prisoners to a Canteen? Make sure the prisoners have access to the canteen, meaning make sure you dont have staff only arreas blocking the path. You can "research" logistics which will let you manually tell prisoners where to go to eat. And where the cooks should deliver food.How do you assign prisoners to shops?
To allocate prisoners to The Library or The Shop you need to (as of this posting date) go to Logistics --> Prison Labour then click on the location to add prisoners.Why are all my prisoners in the holding cell?
This is due to the fact that each of your cells' living quality is above that which the prisoner deserves. Occasionally they will occupy a nice room when they don't deserve it, but most of the time they will just default to the holding cell.Prison Architect - There are no prisoners assigned to eat at this canteen solution
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Answer 2
After searching for almost an hour trying to figure out what was going on, I realized I had made a building expansion to an existing building. I had brought the fence to the edge of it, BUT because I didn't create a door or entry into the building edition, it was incomplete. As a result, I had an opening in my perimeter because of the incomplete building.
Answer 3
You can fix it by fencing off the prison. Once the prison is surrounded by road gates and fence or water, the canteen should work normally.
Answer 4
I also had this problem but i solved it my own way. I had added a staffroom to my prison with vending machines inside and i realised that all the prisoners were going to the staffroom, presumably for the vending machines. I then made it so only staff could go in the staffroom via the deployment tab and this worked. So i suggest that all places that you wouldn't see prisoners go, make them off limits to everyone but staff.
Answer 5
I once tried making two canteens, med sec and max sec, connected. The med was in top and max on the bottom. However, the max sec peeps were not eating, and the canteen said no one was assigned to eat. I even checked the logistics and made sure the max sec wing ate at the max sec canteen, which was the canteen having that had the problem. I was stumped. Then I finally understood that in order to get into their canteen, the max sec had to walk through the med sec canteen, which was off limits to t hem (again, I designated the top canteen med sec) That was why they couldn't eat. So I made a short hallway around the med sec and to the max sec canteen, thus solving all this kerfuffle.
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