Prisoner not allowed to play D&D

[Mark Chance]

It's a bit worrying, though, that so many people believe prison is a place of punishment, when the grounding principle of gaol in a free society is that people are confined there as punishment, not for punishment.

Adding emphasis to the prepositions doesn't make that statement less a distinction without a difference.

Banning a prisoner from D&D as a punitive measure is just a mild form of torture and should be recognised as such.

Being banned from D&D is a form of torture?

 

[Hairfoot]

Being banned from D&D is a form of torture?

Excluding the qualifying adjective doesn't ameliorate the implicit moral relativism, although I think Umbran is loathe to let the conversation go down that path.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

If the goal of imprisonment is...<snip>

If you ask most modern scholars of penal philosophy, the purpose of a modern prison is all that and more. What purpose it serves an individual inmate depends upon the inmate himself.