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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ourph" data-source="post: 5068860" data-attributes="member: 20239">You don't know there was no policy on RPGs. All you know is that RPG materials weren't banned.Apparently, the staff responsible for gang activity monitoring weren't aware of the game for those two years. They didn't become aware of it until the players started recruiting additional inmates into the game with flyers.He decided to confiscate the material and ban any further RPG activity after examining not only the gaming material, but also the recruitment flyer and a document created by the players, the contents of which we know nothing about. It would not surprise me if the staff interviewed other inmates about the group's activities as well.Perhaps he only concluded the threat was worthy of an outright ban after he investigated the situation. It's also possible that RPGs had never been an issue in that particular facility before, but other games or activies of a similar nature had caused problems in the past and those experiences shaped the policy on RPGs.I assume that the prison official has experience with inmates playing games in prison because I find it impossible to believe that he was involved in security at a prison for 20 years and never encountered inmates engaging in recreational games. I also assume that, even if he has never encountered inmates playing RPGs before, he is capable of extrapolating his previous experience in a way that allows him to assess the implications of RPGs in a prison setting and make informed judgements about the security risks they might pose. I also assume that his investigation into the specifics of this groups activities informed his policy decisions.As for the rest, I don't assume any of it, so I feel no need to defend it.</blockquote>

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