Scheme for church to contain prison outbreak (8)
I believe the answer is:
conspire
'scheme' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'church to contain prison outbreak' is the wordplay.
'church' becomes 'CE' (abbreviation for Church of England).
'to contain' indicates putting letters inside.
'outbreak' is an anagram indicator (I've seen this in other clues).
'prison' is an anagram of 'onspir'.
'ce' going around 'onspir' is 'CONSPIRE'.
'for' is the link.
(Other definitions for conspire that I've seen before include "Secretly plan together" , "scheme" , "'Plot, connive (8)'" , "Collude" , "Act secretly with others" .)