I Know A Guy Shady Life Simulator Prisoner Locations — Photo Quest Targets and Town Spots

The Short Answer on Prisoner Locations

There is no confirmed prisoner location list for I Know a Guy: Shady Life Simulator. The Steam General Discussions index carries a player thread titled "Photograph 4 Prisoners," created by a user named Flashing and dated September 5, 2026, which means the quest exists and at least one player needed help with it — but the captured thread text contains no answer, and no walkthrough, forum guide or wiki page we could use documents spawn points. Every other section on this page therefore covers what is actually documented: how the game's photo quests behave, where the named spots in Hobarey Town are, and what to do when a target will not appear.

The quest phrasing matters, because "locations" in this game is a camera problem rather than a map problem. Photo favors are completed by pointing the camera at a valid target and firing, and the game tells you what you are aiming at before you shoot. If you are stuck, the fix is usually the time of day or the target readout, not a missing marker.

Documented photo target	What the game asks for	Evidence status
Night creatures	Three photos of the red-eyed things people report in town at night	Documented in a player thread plus subtitles; single-source (to confirm)
Sierra Bloom	A photo of an NPC who appears at the pizza shop in a green bikini	Forum index plus subtitles; the name and outfit are unconfirmed
Prisoners (four)	Photograph four prisoners, per the quest thread title	Thread title only, no answer captured (unconfirmed)
Unique trash cans (twelve)	Photos of twelve unique trash cans, per a forum thread title	Thread title only, no answer captured (unconfirmed)

How Photo Quests Actually Work

The most detailed community description comes from a creature photos thread, and it applies to photo favors generally. You buy the camera from the store computer in the misc section, go outside at night, and watch the bottom of the camera display. It reports what the camera is looking at — a store, a trash can, or a named quest target. When the readout names a valid target, taking the picture turns it into a quest item.

The practical steps, in order:

• Buy the camera from the store computer before you accept a photo favor.
• Wait for night; the documented creature window is 22:00 to 02:00.
• Walk with the camera up and watch the on-screen target readout rather than scanning with your eyes.
• Only shoot when the readout names the target you need.
• Return the photos to the quest giver at the shop.

Situation	What to do	Source
Target will not appear	Change the time of day, then re-walk the same area with the camera up	Community photo thread
You cannot tell what you are aiming at	Read the target name at the bottom of the camera display	Community photo thread
A quest refuses to complete	Use the item-dependent Quest Reset from the hotfix	Developer patch notes
You have no idea where new work is	Watch the Side Quests tracker on the left HUD panel	Developer patch notes

Named Locations in Hobarey Town

The town is named Hobarey Town on the store page, and the locations below are the ones that appear in the sources for this page. None of them is described as a prison.

Location	What it is documented for	Evidence status
The pizza shop and its back window	The hub of the game: orders at the front, shady favors at the back window	Official store page
The Hobarey Depot	The town hardware store, where the washing machine and incinerator are bought after unlocking them	Community answer, developer replied in thread
The warehouse	The map destination developers point stuck players to, and the place one playthrough calls the depot	Community thread plus subtitles (to confirm)
The woods	Night creature sightings, generally deeper in, between 22:00 and 02:00	Community photo thread
The watchtower	A landmark reached on foot at night in a co-op playthrough	Subtitles, single-source (to confirm)
The lake, hospital, skate park and bar	Town landmarks listed while running the map	Subtitles, single-source (to confirm)
The gated neighborhood up the hill	Described by a cleaning-job client as where the rich houses are	Subtitles, single-source (to confirm)
The sewers	An achievement asks the player to serve three pizzas to the strange people in the sewers	Achievement tracker

Prisoners, Prison Outfits and What the Game Does Show

The clearest prison-adjacent detail in the sources is not a location at all. In a co-op playthrough, an ordinary delivery customer is described as having broken out of prison and as wearing prison clothes while ordering a margarita pizza. It reads as one of the game's running jokes rather than a prisoner-hunting mechanic, and because it comes from a single auto-generated caption, treat the character detail as unconfirmed.

The second detail is a joke line about the coffee served in prison, spoken during an early dark web errand. Neither reference gives you a location. If the Photograph 4 Prisoners quest does have fixed spots, nobody has published them yet, and the honest position is that this page will need an update once a player posts coordinates or screenshots.

• Confirmed: photo quests exist, the camera readout validates targets, and night is the documented window for creature-type targets.
• Confirmed: a forum thread about photographing four prisoners exists.
• Not confirmed: where those prisoners are, whether they spawn on a timer, or whether the quest needs a specific in-game day.
• Not confirmed: whether prisoners are photographed in the open world, inside the prison the opening cutscene mentions, or at the shop like other photo targets.

The Kidnapping Opening, Explained

It helps to know why prison imagery appears at all. The game opens with the player kidnapped by the mafia, dropped off with no clothes and told to find the pizza shop, then handed a debt. The store page describes exactly that setup: you owe a dangerous, mysterious mafia a serious amount of money, they do not call or warn you, and you work it off. Prison, prison clothes and prison coffee are all part of that tone, which is why search results for "prisoner" keep landing on jokes instead of locations.

If you are following a video for the prisoner photo quest, check whether the video is from the Early Access period. Several of the largest playthroughs predate the 1.0 release on September 25, 2026, and patch notes since then have changed quest tracking, added the Quest Reset, and fixed a save migration bug affecting one early mission.