"Dungeons & Dragons could “foster an inmate’s obsession with escaping from the real-life correctional environment, fostering hostility, violence and escape behavior,” prison officials said in court. That could make it more difficult to rehabilitate prisoners and could endanger public safety, they said."

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01…..geons.html

Wow. that's essentially an indictment of imagination. They're not allowed to escape from their over-crowded cells even in their minds… what a society we have!

Black Sword said:

Die Gedanken sind frei

That is all…

Sadly, not in prison they aren't. Whether or not that should be the case I'll leave for another time.

Cases like this hinge on the level of review the court applies.  If the court ends up using rational review, then the regulation is almost certainly going to be upheld.  All the nonsense that takes place after the court decides on a level of a review is mental masturbation at best. 

In the end, I think the message the court is sending is "if you want to play an RPG, then don't smash in someone's skull with a sledgehammer."