Prison Bans D&D For Mimicking Gang Structure

[wraggster]

In a case that has been winding its way through the courts for a while now, a Wisconsin prison banned inmates from playing Dungeons & Dragons, using the justification that 'one player is denoted the Dungeon Master... [who] is tasked with giving directions to other players... [which] mimics the organization of a gang.' The prison also cited some sparse evidence that a handful of non-inmate D&D players once committed some crimes that allegedly were related to their D&D playing. On Monday the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the regulation (PDF) against challenges from inmates. The court appeared skeptical of the ban, sarcastically referring to it as the 'war on D&D,' but upheld it nonetheless as having a 'rational basis.' Law professor Ilya Somin suggests that the court may have had no choice, given how deferential rational-basis review usually is.

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/01/26/0213229/Prison-Bans-DampD-For-Mimicking-Gang-Structure

[ThatotherPerson]

Its good to see that they have removed such a harmful influence like D&D from the inmates lives so that they can spend there time incarcerated more productively by doing things like sitting around being bored and maybe shiving and/or raping someone.