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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SiderisAnon" data-source="post: 4067367" data-attributes="member: 44949">I fully understand why you would want to be able to have gaming as a prisoner. You have a limited amount of stuff that you're allowed to own. While a typical book can only be read once, a gaming book can be used over and over again.I am not going to get on the bandwagon talking about prisons being just punishment versus a level of rehabilitation as well. More important is that if you don't give the prisoners some way of having some entertainment during a long jail sentence, they're going to become uncontrollable. (Hence there are the everyday things like cable TV and the sometimes occurring problems of guards bringing in drugs and booze to help keep the prisoners "placated".)I do however agree that playing a game which is generally about violence, theft, and being so powerful that you can do whatever you want is maybe not the best entertainment for a lot of prisoners. Sure, the guy in there for cheating on his taxes probably isn't going to be influenced by it, but it's not really the outlet I'd like to see for a more violent criminal.Then again, as you've told us nothing about your client or what kind of crime or what type of prison, any discussion of appropriateness is probably moot.There is another problem you must face with prison gaming, however. At least in my state, my understanding is that most dice are simply not allowed because they can be used for gambling as well as gaming. While you can play without any real materials such as miniatures (metal to make into a weapon), dice are necessary unless you're playing a game like Amber.That having been said, I will go on to an actual constructive reply to your request: About 10 years ago, I had a player in my group whose younger brother wanted to play. His mother wouldn't allow it because she felt that D&D was evil. I put together a package for him of research I did on the internet. I found articles written by psychologists and priests touting the benefits of D&D for everything from stress relief to a place to where you could face moral decisions that you won't normally get in the real world. There were statistics about how gamers actually have a much lower level of suicide than normal folk of their age. There were also items helping to debunk the common myths about gaming.Some of these were from professional sources. These seem like the kind of people you want to approach.Unfortunately, I no longer have the research or the links. However, I found all of this in an evening or two with Webcrawler. I'm sure Google and whoever else could help you do the same thing. Much of it would be useless in court because it is unsubstantiated, but I think you should be able to find some starting points on experts fairly quickly.I just did a quick search for "d&d psychology benefit". In the first page of links, I found a site that lists advocacy sites and books. "http://www.roleplayingtips.com/downloads/supplemental_21_rpg_advocacy.txt"Good hunting.</blockquote>

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