Parole Hearings Are Misbehaving

[filthywabbit]

I have been having problems with parole since the update. It seems like something is broken. I have 480 prisoners, and parole is really backed up, 64 up for parole right now. I have so many parole rooms trying to clear the queue but it just isn't happening. The hearings take place (prisoners go to parole and meet with the lawyers in every room) three times a day, but whenever the hearings finish, the number of prisoners up for parole maybe goes down by three or four and that's it. By the time each day is done, the number up for parole has either stayed the same or even gone up.

I'm having 45 parole hearings a day, I see each of them appearing to work, but they're just not getting cleared for some reason. Is this some kind of bug?

 

[filthywabbit]

Update: I have resolved this problem. I think the issue was in how my parole hearings were manually scheduled. I removed all scheduled parole hearings, and then let the game auto-schedule new ones by just clicking "Start" until it said all rooms were booked, and everything seems to be working fine again.

 

[Lolthulhu]

I have the same issue. works for one day, then it happens again....

 

[filthywabbit]

So, there were a few weird issues I had to iron out to get parole working again.

Initially, my problem was like a bug: hearings that were scheduled back-to-back resulted in prisoners and the parole officials ending up sitting in different rooms, both doing nothing. You can check this by mousing over the little colored squares next to each active hearing in the Programs tab; the big square will show you location of parole officers, the little one the prisoner. If they end up in different rooms, I def had that problem too.

Trying to fix that, I manually moved each parole hearing so there was two hours between each, figuring it should allow prior rooms to clear before filing up again, and that did resolve the issue of officers and parolees going to different hearing rooms. Then, though, they'd all successfully meet up, but like every meeting would seem to short-circuit and nobody was getting paroled and my Up for Parole count ballooned.

To fix this, I killed all scheduled hearings and unassigned all parole rooms. Then I reassigned the rooms, and instead manually scheduling, I just hit Start in the programs tab a whole bunch of times (had a lot of parole rooms at this point lol) until the end of the list told me ALL ROOMS BOOKED. At that point it started working, and the Up for Parole count dropped precipitously down to a totally manageable number. At this point now, my parole system seems to be functioning normally again, with about ten hearings a day, but I still have up to about 30 or 40 scheduled each day because I have so many rooms.

I hope you can try what I did, and that it fixes your issue.

 

[Lolthulhu]

Thanks man, seems like it works now =)
Will keep a close watch on the issue

 

[filthywabbit]

You're welcome! I'm glad we seem to have figured it out. I will come back to this thread if I start having more problems; I still think there is a bug somewhere in there, and it may show up again.

 

[poggles789]

I have been having trouble with the parole too. For some reason my prisoners just keep going back to have another hearing over and over again even if they've been denied (I tried putting the parole cutoff really high, which fixed it for most of them, but is not ideal for max security prisons). See the attached screenshot.

I'll try rescheduling the hearings to see if that helps.

 

[Lolthulhu]

Yesterday i witnessed the following:
The Prisoners being released during the parole hearing will leave after 3,5 hours of the hearing and will be counted down correctly. (And added to "soon to be released")
The other Prisoners leave after the full 4 hours and are not counted off the parole counter.

Right now i'm running a 100% parole limit test in a 550 prisoner jail.

Edit:
Before Parole:
2 Prisoners to be released
40 Prisoners up for Parole

21 Parole Hearings happening

after 3.5 hours:
11 Prisoners to be released
31 Prisoners up for parole

after 4 hours

23 Prisoners to be released
31 Prisoners up for parole


So, yes, there HAS to be a bug.
all Prisoners were released, so i expected the number to drop from 40 to 19 due to 21 100% succesful parole hearings.

 

[Lolthulhu]

So, as you can see in this screenshot, our culprit just left parole unsuccesful. it's 11.15 am, the parole hearing went from 7 to 11. But at 10.30 the "sitting timer" you can see, startet from the beginning. now he's half an hour into a parole hearing. which qualifies him as "up for parole" even though he should be "you did fuk up, u stay in jail" labeled.

Pwetty pwease, Paradox.. fix that...