You need to set up a rehabilitation center for prisoners, and get 100 prisoners through it. You gain money for rehabs, and lose for escapees.

Lesson 1 - hire lots of security scuzzers!! If criminals come into your station and aren't taken to jail immediately, they cause all sorts of problems! You need tons of scuzzers to be waiting right by the entrance to grab the criminals when they come in. Also build two jails RIGHT next to it so they don't have far to go with their prisoners. Start with one jail area with 6 cells, then build the next 'area' beneath it and populate it with cells as you get the money coming in.

Be sure to build a security column and recycler as you start to get cash in. Face the cells forward so you can see if you're running low on empty cells. The cash comes in slowly on this one - just build very slowly, keep enough energy around to keep the cells going, and keep an eye on your security scuzzers.

You might have a bomb or two planted - just scour the area until you find them, and then grab them and put them somewhere that you're not using so they don't hurt anything. Near the end you might have a sickbay, but really you just need the bare minimum here with 4-5 beds in the berth. That's it!

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