The locks that they use in prisons are just versions of locks made by lock companies. Except they are programmed to all lock when a fire alarm goes off …
I saw this discussed referencing a new prison build, where the locks were initially programmed incorrectly – unlocking all doors when a fire alarm went off.
Hoping you meant unlock…don’t prisoners need to get out of cells to be marshaled to a safe venue?
Apparently, prisons don’t want a system where prisoners can unlock all the cell doors by starting a fire.
Separately, I’ve been told that prisons deal with this by reducing the amount of flammable material available to prisoners, restricting availability of matches, high levels of staffing, and depending on prisoners not to be stupid – none of which are universally successful.
Fair enough. Makes sense. At second thought the guards must have almost instant ways to unlock neighboring cells. Glad I don’t work in a prison anymore.
The hotel will need somebody who can search youtube for videos on opening the chain and bar types of locks. There are low skill, non-destructive attacks to get around them very quickly. The destructive attacks are also effective, and sending the distruptive guest a large bill to replace a $10 chain lock may be part of the plan.
As @echoreply says, there’s some pretty easy ways around those type of bars. I know 'em, and have used them once or twice over the years. I’m not inclined to go into details on the mechanics, however…
So far as deliberately causing more damage to bill the (former) guest for…nah. Doing so may well put the room out of order longer than necessary, and if it’s gotten to the point where the guest is getting kicked out, they’re usually in enough trouble as it is. That, and it seems kinda dishonest, to me at least.
Getting vindictive may feel good, briefly, but it’s usually not worth the hassle. Better to get them out as quickly and peacefully as possible.
That’s what we use - my security’s had to once or twice.
The year I started here we had a guest who had zero luck. His key died, we rekeyed it, he came back up saying no lights went on on the door lock at all, so we sent maintenance down. Turned out the battery had died. No probs, maintenance went off for the opening tool and a new battery. He could not get it to open.
By this time it’s 2 AM and the guy just wants to sleep. Maintenance called his boss, who had us break the plate glass window to get in. Then had to get in, open up the door for the guest who had to go pack up to be room moved while avoiding the plate glass.
Heh. Reminds me of what happened at a place I worked awhile ago.
Guest had come back from a night on the town, needed to get gone to catch a plane, but the door lock was dead. No physical key backup in that system; the engineer used what he called a ‘gillooley’* to open doors in that case, but this was graveyard shift and I couldn’t get it to work.
So I chiseled and then crowbarred the lock off the door. Took about twenty minutes, and it wasn’t quiet. At all. Got him out, wrote it up in my report, and then faced the chief engineer’s wrath the next night.
When they started talking about converting to keycard locks at my current place, I told them that if the system didn’t have a physical key backup, I would quit. Never again!
*This was a rig with a frame holding a piece of innertube, with a rope on either side. The idea was that you would slide this under the door, standing it up on the inside, then pull down on the ropes, so that the rubber would get enough grip on the inside doorknob to turn it.
Pre-COVID I slept in hotels ~10 nights a month for most of the last 30 years. A different hotel each night.
The number of times things have gone wrong with my room are thankfully a small percentage. But substantially zero of those problems occurred at a decent time of day or when the extra time to fix whatever wasn’t coming minute for minute out of my sleeping budget, not my killing time budget.
The Universe is a perverse place indeed.