{"id":154,"date":"2005-01-26T18:06:26","date_gmt":"2005-01-26T17:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.dk\/ludologist\/?p=154"},"modified":"2005-01-26T18:06:59","modified_gmt":"2005-01-26T17:06:59","slug":"inhumane-punishment-no-video-games-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2005\/01\/26\/inhumane-punishment-no-video-games-in-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Inhumane Punishment: No Video Games in Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/TECH\/01\/25\/videogames.prisons.ap\/index.html\">From CNN<\/a>.<br \/>\nThe US state of Missouri has banned <em>all<\/em> video games in the state&#8217;s prisons. Why? Because inmates had been playing violent video games.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In prison, inmates should &#8220;pick up skills and abilities that will allow them to go back out into society and be productive citizens,&#8221; Blunt said. &#8220;Playing video games doesn&#8217;t have anything to do with either of those objectives.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hmm. I always thought one of the most terrifying aspects of prison was the sheer boredom at such a place. No video games, this is just too inhumane &#038; heartless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From CNN. The US state of Missouri has banned all video games in the state&#8217;s prisons. Why? Because inmates had been playing violent video games. In prison, inmates should &#8220;pick up skills and abilities that will allow them to go back out into society and be productive citizens,&#8221; Blunt said. &#8220;Playing video games doesn&#8217;t have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2005\/01\/26\/inhumane-punishment-no-video-games-in-prison\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Inhumane Punishment: No Video Games in Prison&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}