Missouri prisons use videogames to "occupy" inmates

Missouri may have banned violent videogames from its prisons earlier this month, but it remains one of only three states that permits inmates to play videogames (now, just sports and "sci-fi") at all.  Said a spoken for the Department of Corrections there, "We let them play these games so they are not spending their time assaulting our staff."  Michael Lung, a Jefferson City inmate, has a slightly differently take, "By allowing video games, the prison is basically paying for cheap and easy baby-sitting."  Baby-stting, huh?  They might as well just plug cables into the base of their spinal cords and harvest their potential- er, wait a minute…