Wow, This needs to be addressed...

[wiidad]

I love this game. It has my sons and I playing side by side in a race to escape each new prison. Thus far, I have been the only one not to win a map until just now when I escaped Shankton State Pen by tunneling 20 paces directly east from the north east corner of my cell on day 14.

However, on each time I opened my tunnel by moving my desk in my cell once I had completed the 20th tile during the daytime. The guard tower would somehow instantly see my tunnel. Let me be clear, I had not yet begun to dig up yet. I had merely completed the 20 tiles I needed to be on the other side of the wall.

I tried moving my desk before role call, during role call, after role call, but each time, the guard tower would magically see my tunnel if I moved my desk in my cell. So I waited until midnight and moved my desk and the towers didn't see me. The issue here is that the towers cannot see into my cell. Why on earth was my tunnel revealed simply by moving my deck?

Love the game, not the bugs...

[Mygemdiamond]

Yeah thats a bug, so let me provide a few alternative routes to escaping:

1. Short dig
You will need a few items for this
-Cutters (sturdy ones save the most fatigue)
-Lightweight Shovel(sturdy shovel or multitool in case theres a boulder on your way out)
-Guard Outfit
-Bed Dummy
-Food (optional, but recommended)
After evening role call, you can escape the inside prison the two ways, first one is to make a plastic entrance key and simply walk through the locked purple doors. The second way is to go through the vents, onto the roof, and jump off the roof using the open wall. After that, head to the left of the compound, go to the top left, cut through the fence, then go and dig right next to the wall three spaces to the left, dig up, and you are out.
2. Rooftop escape
You will also need items for this
-Grapple Hook
-Rope (2 sheet rope or 1 length of rope)
-Cutters (Sturdy works best)
-Bed Dummy
After role call, go through your vent, onto the roof, and try to get to the left side of the roof using your grapple hook and rope. You should get to a silver bar that you can walk across. Go and walk across that, cut the fence on the ajacent building, then grapple up again, grapple over the wall, and you are out.
3. Prison Takeover
You will need A LOT of things for this
-Something to tie up people with (duct tape or length of rope)
-Lots of molten chocolate
-Maxed out strength or speed (optional, but recommended
-Recruited buddies (optional, but recommended)
Basically you go around, throwing hot chocolates at guards or beating them up, tying them up and putting them in a cell which should be covered by sheets. After you beat up and tie up 80% of the guards, the warden will open all the purple and white locked doors, and you can simply walk out of the prison

[wiidad]

All top notch escape plans thank you. I managed to escape using my tunnel, by not entering it again until lights out. The bug seems to have a limited schedule of anytime the tower guards are present the bug happens but not if they are gone.