![]() His other invention was born from pure boredom. Jones created the game to give others a taste of what it was like to live behind bars. They have to play the game, but can almost never win. ![]() What’s more, some characters, like Jones himself, are in for life. Attending self-help programmes, informing on other inmates or contracting a severe chronic disease can earn early release, but the odds are stacked well against it. Gamers must serve their sentences, but even as they plough through fighting, theft, punishments, gangs and self-mutilation, the game may end, apropos of nothing, with ‘Killed in Prison’ or ‘Suicide’. ![]() The harsh realities, as players quickly discover, include sexual assault, scalding, hurled faeces and a bludgeoning with a sock full of batteries. The brightly coloured, hand-drawn Serving Time on the River: The Harsh Realities of Prison Life casts players as inmates in Angola, forced to run an unending gauntlet of ‘Unavoidable Circumstances’ brought on by rolls of the dice. One was a board game that he created, produced and even sold to visitors at prison fairs. ![]() When he finally emerged, he took with him the ideas for two inventions. Roscoe Jones spent 11 years in solitary confinement in Angola, Louisiana, the biggest maximum-security prison in the United States. ![]()
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