Once you've gone through Reception or Deliveries you will then be escorted to your cell or holding cell depending on housing availability. Once you have started a game, you will arrive at the selected prison via prison bus and offload at either the Deliveries Zone or next to the Reception Room depending on what the process is for intake at that particular prison. Another and easier way in low and mid security prisons is to fight your way out of prison. You can choose a sneaky way of escaping through a tunnel, but you should consider this could take some time, especially in bigger prisons or when your cell is far away from the last wall of that prison. There are multiple ways to achieve the main objective. Alternatively, you can enter this mode automatically while playing the classic mode due to reaching a certain failure condition. You are a prisoner, and the goal is to escape from prison you have chosen before. The players can select one of their prisons, already downloaded prisons from Steam Workshop or just randomly selected prison from SW. It was announced to be in Prison Architect Version 1 which was released on October 6th 2015 and was eventually introduced in this version (initial release excluding the previous alphas), and can be accessed through the ' Extras' tab in game menu.

This mode allows you to play as a prisoner in yours or a random/downloaded steam workshop prison.

Prison architect escape mode