In 1984, Crist City passed a law allowing the government to sell prisons to private bidders. Ten years later, you bought the Pompeii Prison in the Black Cloud district. Your responsibilities are total: power supply, waste disposal, food, water, accommodation, and leisure facilities for a population of inmates with strong opinions about all of it. Give them too little, and the consequences range from low productivity to riots, jailbreaks, and worse. City of God I: Prison Empire is a management game about running a private correctional facility where the margin for error is narrow.