Seems like they intended for that to be possible with the policy screen because you can set it to downgrade security level. However everything listed there is misbehavior so there isn't a good reason to use it. I do have a way of getting around that by having a quality 10 high security cell in a low security area. Only the best behaved prisoner will end up there so while they haven't officially been downgraded they are living the low security lifestyle, as long as they do nothing wrong.
You might try having a remote door that is open all day and closes (not locked) at night. The game reads a remote door as being a possible route even if there's no way for anyone to open it. At least it's worked that way for me. I haven't tried doing exactly what you want, but I have seen prisoners stand waiting infront of a door that will never open.
Being able to put a prisoner on death row seems too easy. The whole point of running a prison is you have deal with the worst people. As is however, you can turn on freefire when they misbehave as execute them that way. Or just allow them to escape. Which highlights a problem with the game. There's no really penalty for loss of prisoners. If you lose many in a short time you may get fired, but one now and then doesn't matter. There's a $50000 loss in prison value for deaths and escapes, however that's a temporary penalty which only affects value when selling your prison or stock, both of which are disabled when there has been a recent death/escape. So the only penalty is not being about to sell your prison for 24 hours.
You should at very least lose the intake fee you got when they came in.
Seems like the only thing stopping us from doing that ourselves is that prisoners have to have an eat time scheduled. If you could have an eat-in-cell time in the regime they'd never have to leave. It would be too much work to have food delivered for all prisoners, so one would likely only use it for supermax. It already works that way for death row and permanant lockdown.
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