Mithria prison Softlock stole the ending from me

[King Of The Chuds]

Got stuck in Mithria Prison near the end of the game. Feeling pretty burned.
I’m honestly pretty frustrated right now and wanted to see if anyone else has run into this.
I was playing through the endgame and was basically at the end of my run. My character was level 16, I had completed almost every quest, and I was down to only a few things left in Mithria.
I ended up getting arrested and sent to the Prison of Mithria (Rubor quest) had lockpicks earlier in the game, but I used them on various locked doors while exploring the prison (mostly doors that ended up not having anything important behind them). I had no way of knowing that I would eventually need them for escaping prison and getting to the spike trap button.
When I got there, I didn’t have any lockpicks left, no Unlock spell, no scrolls (game really handed me like no unlock scrolls throughout) , no useful items, and my last save was the autosave from inside the prison. I tried looking around for another way out, but the locked door with the escape button is blocked off by a spike trap. I also tried waiting/running around the cell because I saw a developer response mentioning serving the sentence, but I didn’t get anywhere. http://linux.redshift.hu/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6679. The dev says to wait for guards to take you but when you lockpick the door of your cell the timer seems to stop since you are considered a criminal.
It’s just really disappointing because I was so close to finishing the game. I don’t mind difficult mechanics or consequences, but being able to accidentally put yourself into a state where your save is stuck is just… annoying.
I’m not trying to bash the whole game I actually enjoyed it enough to get almost to the end but this really soured the experience for me. Has anyone found a workaround for this, or am I just out of luck?
Im fine with prison being a punishment mechanic, but a player shouldn’t be able to accidentally create an unwinnable save without warning. I’ll take being torn apart by witches and evil eyes over this though. I’m at the finish line of a marathon and someone kneecapped me

[Lootwalk]

To clarify, is the autosave/earliest save you have, from inside the prison, after you locked picked the first door already? If it was rather from when you immediately entered the prison, then you could do the walking back and forth pre-first lockpick.

And you can't get to the spike trap at all from that earliest save? I am confused on where you wrote the escape button is blocked off by spike trap; you would have to step on the spike trap and then hit the button if you were able to use the earliest save to unlock two doors total to get out that way.

[King Of The Chuds]

Originally posted by Lootwalk:

To clarify, is the autosave/earliest save you have, from inside the prison, after you locked picked the first door already? If it was rather from when you immediately entered the prison, then you could do the walking back and forth pre-first lockpick.

And you can't get to the spike trap at all from that earliest save? I am confused on where you wrote the escape button is blocked off by spike trap; you would have to step on the spike trap and then hit the button if you were able to use the earliest save to unlock two doors total to get out that way.

I’m on the mobile version of this game. The latest hard save is about 5 hours old set before the treasure island quest. The game has saved after the event of lockpicking the door to the cell I was in, as well as saving after I had used all my lockpicks on cell doors

The spike trap is laid out behind a door that requires a lockpick or an unlock spell, all my lockpicks are broken and I never found a spellbook. I think I found 2 scrolls of unlock throughout my journey. The issue itself is that I cannot get to the spike trap button itself due to the cell being locked off.