Although for efficiency's sake, they should all be in the same room or complex, share an entrance and exits, and prisoners should be able to freely move from one workshop to another, breaking it it up into smaller units using fence and (locked open) doors will allow you to assign many more prisoners to work in PI, greatly increasing your daily profits. Several smaller (but interconnected) workshops are better than one large one.
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Two 4 hour work shifts broken up by a couple of hours of free time is much better for prisoner morale than one 7 or 8 hour shift, and the financial losses are fairly minimal. You lose a little efficiency-depending on the layout of your prison, it can take as much as 30 in game minutes for prisoners to get to the workshop and begin work-but your prisoners are much happier for it. Prisoners can later be replaced by janitors to keep the prison clean if you prefer, but these can be researched later. Ensure that laundry rooms and cleaning cupboards are installed and staffed as soon as Prison Labour is available.
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Ensure that there is one bed per prisoner in a holding cell, one phone and TV to every 3-5 prisoners and one toilet to every 10 or so prisoners sharing the cell.Without them, prisoners' sleep, family and recreation needs will spiral out of control before you know it, and riots will ensue.
They are not requirements, but will keep your prisoners much more happy early on.