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Wisconsin Inmate Loses Dungeons and Dragons Fight
A man serving life in prison for first-degree intentional homicide has lost his legal battle to play Dungeons and Dragons behind bars.
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Posted Monday, January 25, 2010 --- 1:35 p.m.
By SCOTT BAUER
Associated Press Writer
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A man serving life in prison for first-degree intentional homicide has lost his legal battle to play Dungeons and Dragons behind bars.
Kevin T. Singer filed a lawsuit against officials at Wisconsin's Waupun prison after a policy was initiated in 2004 to eradicate all Dungeons and Dragons game materials among concerns that playing it promotes gang-related activity.
The 33-year-old Singer is a devoted player of the fantasy role-playing game that involves recruiting others to play as a group. He argued that his First Amendment rights were being violated and demanded that Dungeons and Dragons material confiscated from his cell be returned.
But the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that the prison's policy was reasonable.
Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.
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The big problem here is his perpetuating the stereotype. Just so you d and d haters out their. WE DON'T KILL WE DON'T DO MAGIC WE DON'T DRESS UP all we like it the challenge of a mind game that you can only get though fantasy role playing. If anyone in the justice system knew this they would not even consider this and issue since d and d is not gang related and is not violent. All d and d is is a more challenging strategy game then the video game.
I have to disagree with Matt and Donald. The point of prison is not to rehabilitate, reeducate, or protect the populace at large. They call it the penal system for a reason, it's there to punish... nothing more, nothing less. If an inmate learns from the experience and never reoffends so much the better, but the entire system exists to inflict punishment and what good is grounding your kids if you let their friends come over and play games?
I'd have to agree with Matt here. The point of imprisoning people is one, to remove people with dangerous behavior from the greater society, and two, if possible, to correct that behavior for possible future reintroduction. The problem is that, being primates, all of our behavior is learned, not instinctive. By isolating people and only placing them with other dangerous people, we deny them the chance to learn the peaceful, cooperative primate behavior we all have come to take for granted. In this case, you're not showing someone what they have taken away from themself, you're denying them the chance to better themself. Given, this man did already have this game as a hobby, and if any of what I previously said was true, he wouldn't be there in the first place, but that doesn't mean he should be forced to quit it altogether in favor of the more traditionally violent culture of the prison system.
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