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Dungeons and Dragons Threatens Prison Security, Court Rules
Fox News ^ | Jan 26, 2011 | Fox News

Posted on 01/27/2011 3:39:00 PM PST by Abin Sur

If you're an orc or a wizard, you'd better keep your nose clean.

A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit weighed in Wednesday on a matter of grievous import to the nation's prisons: Dungeons & Dragons. And the Court's ruling was bad news for naughty nerds nationwide, concluding that the innocent-seeming board game was inviting trouble.

The case brought before the Appeals Court argued that D&D inhibited prison security, because "cooperative games can mimic the organization of gangs and lead to the actual development thereof." And therefore Kevin T. Singer, a long-time dungeon-explorer sentenced to life in prison in 2002 for bludgeoning and stabbing his sister’s boyfriend, was denied access to his magical staffs and pieces of gold.

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TOPICS: Books/Literature; Hobbies; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: dd; dungeonsanddragons
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To: Abin Sur
The case brought before the Appeals Court argued that D&D inhibited prison security, because "cooperative games can mimic the organization of gangs and lead to the actual development thereof."

Bullstalin. Earlier reports on this case had authorities saying that it was escapism and should not afford them relief from their imprisonment.

Prisons are A-OK with racist gangs and even Wahabist recruiting in prisons. Racial disharmony keeps the inmates hostile at one another rather than the guards and other staff.

21 posted on 01/27/2011 4:30:55 PM PST by a fool in paradise (The biggest waste of brainpower is to want to change something that's not changeable. -Albert Brooks)
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To: JoeProBono

I’m sorry, but that’s 4e, and therefore not D&D, but rather “WoW, the RPG”.


22 posted on 01/27/2011 4:32:57 PM PST by kevkrom (De-fund Obamacare in 2011, repeal in 2013!)
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To: Tanniker Smith
Heck, in my gaming group we still play The Fantasy Trip...heavily modified with material copied inspired from other RPGs.
23 posted on 01/27/2011 4:34:37 PM PST by Abin Sur
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To: a fool in paradise
From the decision:

"He further testified that fantasy role-playing games like D&D have “been found to promote competitive hostility, violence, and addictive escape behavior, which can compromise not only the inmate’s rehabilitation and effects of positive programming, but endanger the public and jeopardize the safety and security of the institution.”

24 posted on 01/27/2011 4:42:51 PM PST by Abin Sur
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To: Abin Sur

Abin Sur? Jeez, a guy named Dan played a D&D character by that name with our group back then!


25 posted on 01/27/2011 4:43:11 PM PST by Tanniker Smith (I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
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To: Abin Sur
A blast from the past (2002), from the Onion:

When You Are Ready To Have A Serious Conversation About Green Lantern, You Have My E-Mail Address

Even funnier if you read it with a Comic-Book-Guy voice.

26 posted on 01/27/2011 4:52:18 PM PST by Tanniker Smith (I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
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To: Abin Sur

We monopolize the nefarious activity here, observe? Join us promptly if you are aware of what is healthy for you or Eugene here shall make you his subservient b****.
27 posted on 01/27/2011 4:54:25 PM PST by Manic_Episode (Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps...)
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To: Yorlik803

LOLOL!


28 posted on 01/30/2011 7:16:19 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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