though.I’m playingPrison Architect, a management sim that tasks me with the construction and daily operations of a prison. On the surface, it provides me yet another playground for making mischief in the lives of virtual people, but the longer I play, the more I get invested in the chall...
Even the chief architect of selective incapacitation, the Rand Garbage In, Garbage Out? Corporation's Peter Greenwood (with colleague Susan Turner, 1987), later dis- puted the efficacy of profiling and targeting selected groups for incarceration. Some proponents of penal incapacitation responded to...
Prison Architect works well on a macro scale—managing your budget, staff, grants, utilities, and infrastructure, but at times requires a laser-like focus on specific issues and even on individual inmates. After a virus swept through the population I had to check each prisoner for infection (...
Guantanamo Bay has the air of an imperial backwater. On a horseshoe of Cuba, the United States turns its full military might to guarding 164 aging Muslim men. The president calls Gitmo a terrorist recruiting tool. In August, theDaily Mailreported that William Lietzau, the architect of Guantana...
In many sims, buildings magically fade into existence as I lay them out. InPrison Architect,workers construct everything sequentially. I get engrossed watching them deliver construction materials from storage before they build out my design square by square and haul in large single pieces like appli...