Update: 24/02/2022

Required mission/s:

Antonios Bootleg Busk

LockPick Kit

Before you go to No Way Out Correctional Facility:

• Make sure you have one or more Rock Bucks in your inventory. 
• Easiest way to get them is to craft or buy Bonzo Slim Jim and use that to break into cars until you have acquired one or more Rock Bucks. 
• Otherwise, if you can't complete the missions required to be released (many of which involve PvP, which are impossible to complete if no one else is around), it seerms you can get stuck in the prison.

Once Antonios Bootleg Busk is completed, this mission does not automatically start or tell you what to do.

To activate this mission, go to the location with the safe by following these steps:

• Teleport to Tangerine.
• Ensure the lockpick kit is in your inventory.
• Go to this location: /wp [Rocktropia, 134349,83450, 144, Cavendish Dance Studio]
• Go upstairs. In the room on the third floor, there's a safe, which should have a gold exclamation mark over it. Click it.
• Enter the combination for the safe using the following options:

1. 3-6-9 (first three numbers, obtained by completing Antonios Bootleg Busk
2. 36 Degrees Clockwise (the only valid selection according to the instructions in the lockpick kit)
3. 72 Degrees Clockwise (the only valid selection according to the instructions in the lockpick kit)
4. 22 Degrees Counter-Clock (neither selection appeared to match anything, so perhaps the other one works too).

• Yay, you've cracked the safe!
• Walk out the room towards the stairs, only to discover that you're surrounded by police and you need to surrender.
• A new option appears, indicating that you need to kill 60 police.
• Walk out the back door.
• There was one L10 Rocktropia Beat Cop visible. I killed him and that completed the mission. Maybe he was worth 60 normal police
• I should have paid attention to the text - there was some mention of going to BAMF HQ, but I couldn't find anything relevant there, and the Petty Crimes Officer wasn't interested at all.

Essentially, you now need to report to No Way Out Correctional Facility.

• Despite the warnings, you're still able to interact with any facilities at this point, so stock up your inventory and/or storage before you continue. (Read on for my suggestions about why to do this.)
• Go to NWO prison: /wp [Rocktropia, 135388, 91113, 150, NWO entry]
• The warning message appears as you approach the door, stating that access to some amenities (teleport, auction, storage) will be removed, and you'll be unable to leave until you finish all the missions.
• Make sure you have one or more Rock Bucks in your inventory!
• Once you're an inmate, crafting remains accessible, and your total Rocktropia storage is used to source items, not just your inventory. 
• Note that you can't put things into storage while in NWO (although I didn't try stocking up a vehicle and returning it to storage).

Leaving No Way Out Correctional Facility

• Despite what's been written below, it seems you can no longer fly out of the prison. The guards will shoot you down and back you go. 
• However, paying 1 Rock Buck worked to get out via the gold teleporter on level 0 - the guard at the bottom of the stairs is the teleporter to travel between floors and get to level 0.

Good luck! ~ Miss Jalia Berovil

Old info retained below here

The Big Thanks to Amber Blastie Knightley and the rest of the Rocktropian forum contributors

this information was found on the internet archive posted in 2010

Lockpick and Safe Cracking 101

The mission needed to commit the crime is located in at Kashas Corner and is provided by Antonio outside the club across the street from the teleporter.

(read the mission dialogue carefully if you don't want to ask for help later)

Antonio won't talk to you if your cell phone is broken. Visit Mobile Mike first and what if Mike says he doesn't deal with low-life and threatens to call the cops??? IDK. If Antonio tells you that you are busy its because you have another "crime" mission active. Certain missions need to be cleared out of your open missions before you can take this. Two missions that can't be active are, Frankies Empire I and DJ Global Shakedown.

At this point you are still "free", once you do the next step there is "no" way out.

Go to New Harlem and find Lockpick in a dumbster behind a shop (no mouse hoover over action), take it to Cavendish Dance Studio in Tangerine (owned by the ROCKtropia Manager), go upstairs to crack the safe.

At this point the Cops and SWAT should be swarming to take you straight to prison, but it seems to be bugged (or there buget was so small they could not afford a convict bus) so you will need to turn yourself in.. when you are ready. KEEP THIS LOCKPICK, IT WILL BE NEEDED FOR THE ESCAPE MISSIONS

When you're done committing crimes and are ready to serve your prison sentence you have to report to the Booking Officer in the prison at 135393, 91115

On Your Way To No Way Out Prison

When you're done committing crimes and are ready to serve your prison sentence you have to report to the Booking Officer in the prison at 135393, 91115.

You'll be provided a No Way Out Prison Identification Card and get the status as an inmate.

Once you've become an inmate you will have limited access to different parts of the prison and you will not be able to use the 3rd floor teleporter to leave the prison.

There is a yellow circle 'rocktropian' teleporter on the 0 floor, talk to the guard at the bottom of the stairs to get there it costs 1 Rock-buck to use this form of travel (visit the shops here also). Leaving during this chain of missions will mean additional time on your sentance. A penilty mission will be assesed to you and you must complete it before continuing where you left off. These additional missions will also 'reset' your current missions if it gets too messy. Other ways to leave NWO Prison is teleport chip and flying.

Interrupting your prison sentence:

There are 3 different ways you can interrupt your progress inside the prison. The first two is inside the prison if you screw up!

1. You don't accept or cancel the dialogue with an inmate that is about to give you a mission!This will give you a bad rep and any cop or inmate that you don't have earned respect from yet will kill you if you talk to them. Penalty: kill 50 extra inmates, mission given on yard.
2. You abandon a prison quest! Penalty: kill 50 extra inmates, mission given by various cops/inmates on ground level that offers you to get back on track.
3. You teleport out of the prison! This will make you a super snitch and prompt you with a dialogue about every time you teleport somewhere on ROCKtropia. Penalty: kill 250 extra inmates, given by the cop in the booth on the main floor.

(natural skill gains are rewarded during the mission even though dialogue
might suggest otherwise.)

As an inmate you will NOT have access to your Storage nor the Auction.

There is however access to Trade Terminal, Repair Terminal, Technician and Crafting facilities.