Make prisoners work... Hmm. Relatively easy to code, but doesn't fit my vision. Once can easily amass huge amounts of prisoners, which would then make it too easy to get lots of money, so some sort of balance is needed.

In an unreleased feature, Bubba and Bull get a huge bonus to 'guard duty', as they are former prison guards, and mercs with law enforcement background get a bonus to interrogation. I'm still unsure when I'll release that one.

This is a pretty sweet feature. So how does it work? I saw the straps you can buy in the store. Is there a hot key to ask them to surrender, or... what? I don't see anything obvious in the game as to how this works, unless I'm missing something. I can't wait to try this out, this sounds so awesome.

Small suggesion to support mods that were made prior to this feature.
It seems POW_PRISON_CIV_GROUP is set to use uiindex 21 defined in CIV_GROUP_NAMES.XML but for example in Arulco Revisited 1.4, smugglers faction use uiindex 21.
How about add a feature to read from CIV_GROUP_NAMES.XML and check their respective uiindex and name matches "Prisoner"

• If several types of prisoners are in your prison, the low-quality ones are interrogated first.
• If you decide to massacre prisoners in tactical, the elite ones will be killed first, as there the most valuable ones to you. Along to awarding you a loyalty malus in a nearby town for being a total dick, that is.
• If a prisoner joins you, there is a 20% chance that he will be demoted. So if an elite prisoner joins you, 80% chance of him becoming a veteran militia, 16% regular, and 4% green.
• Interrogation points needed can now be set in the ini for each type:
  

  PRISONER_INTERROGATION_POINTS_ADMIN     =  80
  PRISONER_INTERROGATION_POINTS_REGULAR   = 100
  PRISONER_INTERROGATION_POINTS_ELITE     = 140
  PRISONER_INTERROGATION_POINTS_SPECIAL   = 250
  

  Previously, 100 points were used to interrogate a prisoner. You can see the interrogation points of your interrogators in strategic when they are on assignment, 145/7 means 145 points for 7 possible prisoners.
• This is fully savegame compatible! Existing prisoners will be transformed into admin prisoners. Unless you have >255 of them in one prison, then they'll become regulars. And if more than 65535 elites. Though I doubt this is relevant to anyone
• You'll note that this also factors in 'special' prisoners - which you cannot get at this point. That might change in the future.