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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blastin" data-source="post: 5070168" data-attributes="member: 4989">Well....Guess I'll weigh in on this. Background is a Role player for 30 years and I have worked in state level corrections for 5 years before going to the Federal system for last 2 years.     It all boils down to safety of both the staff and the inmates. If the prison can make an even remotely accurate case that a given activity might cause a safety or security risk than they can and will ban it and it will hold up in court.  Do I, as a long term gamer, believe that gaming has “been found topromote competitive hostility, violence, and addictiveescape behavior,"? Nope...well...except for the last bit. But, do I believe that it could? Yup. And, as someone that has to be in contact with these guys every day and would like to go home at night safe and sound, I have no problems with the banning of any activity that even has a slight chance of causing problems.     Someone else posted a time line of what they thought might have led up to this issue, and I think they were pretty close. I'll make a guess here as well. Singer and his group played for 2 years and was under the radar of the SIS (special investigative services) team as the unit officers (the regular officers on singers unit on a daily basis) never saw a problem with the group. A snitch decides to turn them in. He could have done it out of spite, or just as likely, out of genuine concern for the game becoming a problem (remember the inmates, for the most part, don't want problems/safety issues either). The SIS guys looked into it, discovered an issue that they were never aware of before, or were under aware of, and decided that there might be an issue. On deciding that there might be an issue, they chose to side on staff/inmate safety and banned the game. Then it got to court and they had to defend the decision. The Officer was very good at expressing his issue with the overall group/problem, but when he had to relate it to role playing in particular, had to extract an argument from his nether sphincter <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />     I do think that role playing in a prison setting has its place. If run/monitored by informed staff and directed towards positive goals it can be very useful as a means of rehabilitation. But being played unmonitored by inmates I think would be too great a risk.</blockquote>

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