Why give them video games at all? Give them a library, and that's it. Let them work on their brains, that's where their problem is.
Posted on 12/16/2004 8:17:20 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
Violent video games yanked from Missouri prison rec room DECEMBER 16--Until the killjoys at Missouri's Department of Corrections stepped in earlier this month, inmates at the maximum security Jefferson City Correctional Center were able to pass their time playing violent video games like "Hitman: Contracts," "Max Payne," and "Grand Theft Auto." Seems that prison brass were unaware that many of the 80 titles in the facility's PlayStation-equipped video game room featured gory, blood-drenched action (activity in which many of the prison's inhabitants engaged while once at liberty). The officials banned 80 games after a Kansas City Star reporter asked about the propriety of murderers, rapists, and armed robbers honing their skills on titles like "BloodRayne." Below you'll find a two-page list of video games removed from the 1,996-bed prison and a list showing all titles originally ordered (the documents were provided to TSG pursuant to a Sunshine Law request). The video games were not purchased with state funds, but rather through a "canteen fund" generated via prison commissary sales. For some reason, titles on the removal list carrying the "teen" annotation were not, in fact, removed, according to corrections officials.
I think I would find "Grand Theft Auto" a pretty boring game if that's the reason I was in prison.
Why give them video games at all? Give them a library, and that's it. Let them work on their brains, that's where their problem is.
They should ban weight-lifting as well. Guys are coming out of prison as bulked-up monsters.
Let them lift books instead.
IMO, prison should NOT be made comfortable. Give them a cot, 3 squares a day, and a library (govt monitored).
If they want to get outside, put them on a work detail.
Let some liberal college prof come in three days a week to teach some classes. (Might make the said prof into a conservative, given time)
Why would a criminal be worried about going back to prison if it's more comfortable in prison than their home on the outside?
> > Sheriff Joe Arpaio (in Arizona) who created the tent city jail, has
jail
> > Meals down to 40 cents a serving and charges the inmates for them.
> >
> >He stopped smoking and porno magazines in the jails. Took away their
> >weights. Cut off all but "G" movies. He started chain gang's so the
> >inmates could do free work on county and city projects. Then he
started
> >chain gangs for women so he wouldn't get sued for discrimination. He
> >took away cable TV until he found out there was a federal court order
> >that required cable TV for jails. So he hooked up the cable TV again
> >only let in the Disney channel and the weather channel. When
asked why the weather channel he replied, so they will know how
hot it's gonna be while they are working on my chain gangs.
He cut off coffee since it has zero nutritional value. When the inmates
complained, he told them, "This isn't the Ritz/Carlton. If you don't like it,
> >don't come back." He bought Newt Gingrich's lecture series on
> >videotape that he pipes into the jails.
> >
> > More on the Arizona Sheriff:
> > With temperatures being even hotter than usual in Phoenix (116
degrees
> > just set a new record), the Associated Press reports: About 2,000
> > inmates living in a barbed-wire-surrounded tent encampment at the
> > Maricopa County Jail have been given permission to strip down
to
> > their government-issued pink boxer shorts. On Wednesday, hundreds of
> > men wearing boxers were either curled up on their bunk beds or
chatted
> > in the tents, which reached 138 degrees inside the week before.
> > Many were also swathed in wet, pink towels as sweat collected on
> > on their chests and dripped down to their pink socks. "It feels like
> > we are in a furnace," said James Zanzot, an inmate who has lived
> > in the tents for 1 1/2 years. "It's inhumane."
> >
> > Joe Arpaio, the tough-guy sheriff who created the tent city and long
ago
> > started making his prisoners wear pink, and eat bologna sandwiches,
is
> > not one bit sympathetic. He said Wednesday that he told all of the
> > inmates:
> > "It's 120 degrees in Iraq and our soldiers are living in tents too,
and
> > they have to wear full battle gear, but they didn't to wear full
battle
> > gear, but they didn't commit any crimes, so shut your damned
> > mouths!" Way to go, Sheriff! Maybe if all prisons were like this
> > one, there would be a lot less crime and/or repeat offenders.
Criminals should be punished for their crimes - not live in luxury
until it's time for their parole, only to go out and commit another crime
so they can get back in to live on taxpayers money and enjoy things
taxpayers can't afford to have for themselves.
Don't play DOOM 3 alone in the dark unless you want to get the stuffing scarred out of you.
Oh good, Papa Government will save parents from having to, you know, PARENT!
I spend alot of my free time lifting weights and playing video games. This gives me some incentive to stay on the straight and narrow.
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