DBTM: Not sure if I should necessarily be doing this OOC, but can I get some projections on costs for improving the prison
sweatshops workshops, as well as potential income from doing what I wanna do?
You said this in turn 4 regarding it:
... The cost to set up the basic workshops (which have basic functionality; no smelteries or the like) was $3000. Goods worth roughly $0.5/work hour are made. Earnings can be increased through increasing work hours, training prisoners, adopting a more factorized system (with trained foremen and the like), and improving the workshops into proper factories (the cost would be in the tens of thousands of dollars). At current, the workshops have a capacity of three hundred prisoners [150 each prison] (cost to expand is $10/prisoner, but would require additional cost of expansion due to limited building capacity)...
So a few questions/desires:
1. Cost to expand is $10/prisoner. There are
70 (70*10=700) prisoners not working at any given time in the medium security prison, and
30 (30*10=300) in minimum security. That means a minimum cost of (700+300=) $1,000 without considering the additional cost due to lack of space. How much to get everyone in medium and minimum security to be working?
2. A ballpark figure for improving the workshops into proper factories as "tens of thousands" is rather a wide range heh. Would it also be on a scaling system? For example, if you say it would cost $50k to turn one of them into a proper factory, but I only really wanted half of the prisoners to be working in a factory-like setting for whatever reason... would that cost $25k?
3. Another thought would be for Iskra, the company that provided the $200k investment, to provide free training for the prisoners at large (seeing as this benefits the company greatly) as well as some scheme they can run to provide some of the guards (or exceptionally well-behaved prisoners) foreman training. On top of this, some kind of analyst/expert to provide some guidance on what would be the most efficient setup of the stuff in questions 1 and 2. You mentioned I could add a few things in to the contract that I was offered by Iskra; is this something I can add?