Teams are a core feature of Jailbreak. They determine a player's teammates, enemies, and the access to different items and certain features.
Overview[]
Choosing Teams[]
Upon joining Jailbreak, players are prompted to "Choose your side!" and are given the option to join one of two teams; Police or Prisoner. There is a third team, Criminals, which can only be accessed by escaping the Prison as a Prisoner. To select a team, just click on either the "Police" button or the "Prisoner" button.
Switching Teams[]
The switch teams icon.
To switch teams, players must click the circular "half Prisoner-Police" icon on the left. A prompt will then appear asking "Are you sure you want to switch teams?" with a "Yes" and "No" button. Clicking "No" or clicking on the icon again will simply dismiss the prompt. Clicking "Yes" will redirect the player to the select team menu, exactly the same as the menu upon joining the game. If they are a Criminal, they will lose their bounty and will be returned to the Prison as a Prisoner. If you switch teams twice within a short period of time, a 20 second cooldown is activated to prevent abusing the team switch function. You cannot switch teams while arrested or in your cell.
As of the 2025 Winter Update, a new system where players can spawn as a Criminal is currently available for less than 50% of Players. Note: This feature is experimental will either be implemented for all players or will be removed entirely in the future.[1]
Teams[]
Police[]
A police officer wearing full police attire.
Main article: Police
Police is the first of two teams that players are able to select when entering the game. When selecting the team, players wil spawn at either the Police Station, the Prison, the Police Outpost in Cactus Valley, or the Military Base and are granted a Pistol, Handcuffs, a Taser and Road Spikes. The Handcuffs and Taser allow Police to arrest and tase both Criminals and guilty Prisoners. Police also have the ability to protect certain Robberies from being robbed, drive the Bank Truck, and use the Riot Shield. (if they own the SWAT Gamepass).
Although they are given many abilities, their main objective is to prevent Prisoners from escaping the Prison and to arrest Criminals.
Prisoners[]
A prisoner wearing their prison jumpsuit.
Main article: Prisoner
Prisoner is the second team players are able to select when joining the game. Despite this, anyone who joins the game will be a prisoner until they select a team, making it the "default" team. They will spawn at various locations inside of the Prison, depending on the in-game time or if they have been arrested.
Unlike the other teams, Prisoners have very little special abilities. They are able to view the prison schedule, and they automatically spawn with a prison jumpsuit, but they cannot spawn Vehicles and they are required to hijack any vehicle they find.
Their primary objective is to escape the Prison so they can become a Criminal.
Criminals[]
A criminal wearing full BOSS attire.
Main article: Criminal
Criminals are the third team in Jailbreak, and is the only team that players are unable to select upon joining the game*. Instead, the player must escape the Prison as a Prisoner before they can become a Criminal.
Criminals have access to features neither Police nor Prisoners have, with being able to start Robberies, and can open the gates to either Criminal Base.
When playing as a criminal, the main objective is to complete Robberies & Heists and gain bounty, whilst avoiding being arrested by the Police.
*Note: As of the 2025 Winter Update, a new system where players can become a Criminal directly is currently in testing and is only available for select players. This is experimental and may be removed entirely in the future.
Trivia[]
- Each team has their own team color. This refers to the team header on the player leaderboard, the player's name in the chat, the player's nametag, player marker colors both in-game and on the minimap, and the GUI accent color.
- When in the selecting teams menu, the background will shift from an aerial view of the Prison, to a view of Rising City starting from the Bank and fading out at the Jewelry Store, then it will shift to the Mountainside Town past the Town Gas Station, before restarting back at the Prison.
- Originally, the background would shift from an aerial view of the Rising City, starting from the Jewelry Store to the Bank, then to a train tunnel by the Train Station, and then a view of the City from the ground angle near the Bank.
- The camera view would change if the Player selected a team but didn't confirm their selection. This feature no longer works as clicking either team icon confirms your selection.
- If you clicked the police icon once, the camera will be redirected to the Rising City Police Station.
- If you clicked the prisoner icon once, it will be redirected to a view of the cafeteria, prison yard or prison block, depending on the in-game time.
- In the first hours of the release of Jailbreak, it was not possible to switch teams after choosing your team in the selection menu. [2]
- Badimo quickly added the switch teams button a few hours later. [3]
- Formerly, when choosing a team, when you pick the Prisoner or Police button, a white rectangular button saying "Confirm" will pop-up, clicking it will assign you to the team you chose.
- In the Nukes Update, clicking on the team you want to be on, a green oval-shaped button saying "Play" would pop-up.
- As of an unknown update, clicking on either team icon will immediately place you on that team, skipping any confirmation dialogue.