Prisons

From Zombiepedia

[The following is what to do when barricaded in a prison during a Zombie Outbreak.

Prisons are excellent places to barricade yourself in. Already built like a fortress, with fences and strong, stone walls around the entire compound, sniper towers, an infirmary, an armory, a well stocked kitchen meant to feed an entire prison worth of criminals, and a series of mazes and steel doors that you can fall back to incase the zombies manage to get past your defenses makes it a prime choice.

There are two problems when you hole up in a prison: Firstly, it will literally become your own prison (though this is always the case when you barricade yourself somewhere), and the fact that it may still house criminals when you first barricade yourself in there (let's face it, the government is not going to release the inmates, even if they'll starve). If this is the case, you have three options: Release them, and have extra defenders under the new threat that they may result to their old ways; keep them in their cells and still feed them, which loses you supplies and only gains you a clear conscious, or kill them by shooting them or just leaving them in their cells and let them starve, which loses you extra defenders, but also the task of disposing their bodies (so they don't rot and become disease and bacteria breeders).

The cells pose and interesting line of defense. Incase the prison becomes completely overrun, you should have several cells filled with supplies ahead of time, that way you and the survivors can stay away out of the reach of the zombies while shooting them. They can also used to store individual zombies to be studied, since knowledge will always be man's greatest weapon. Or, if any survivors or criminals get out of hand, you can always use the cells for what they were designed for; keeping bad people who can get good people killed where they can't do harm.