[nextlevelwizard]

I don't really buy the quote. You could mitigate a fire in many ways and on top of that unless it takes you minutes to move from a cell to another evacuating 8 prisoners wouldn't take that much time.

Only real fire related threat I can see is if a prisoner for some reason wants to set himself on fire and succeeds. Putting him out might take too long.

As for the inhumane part. I personally don't see it and I think our prisons are little too nice currently, but I'm from a country that doesn't run for-profit prisons.