The DLC adds eight new wardens (Hunter McGreevy, Rick Beresh MD, Tom Dunwright, Warden W-800, Walt 'The Wolf' Wilson, Shaun Fernandez, Nero, El Cocinero) with purely mechanical perks such as workshop access or calming showers, eight premade maps, and eight build plots. None of these introduce identity-focused narratives, romance systems, or gender customization.

The base game features binary gender (male/female prisoner sprites and needs, including female-specific baby mechanics), traditional name lists, and race as a simulation factor for gang alignment, but these serve emergent gameplay rather than activist messaging. Developers explicitly framed the experience as morally ambiguous sandbox management without utopian or ideological framing.