Governor Pulling Plug on Inmate Video Games
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Gov. Matt Blunt said in Jefferson City that he was banning video games from prisons, a month after the Kansas City Star reported some of the state’s most violent inmates were allowed to play games simulating murders, carjackings and the killings of police officers.
Blunt, a Republican who took office two weeks ago, called video games “a luxury that inmates should not be allowed to enjoy.”
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