The article "The Most Captive Audience" by Jeff Deskovic talks about an inmate who was in prison for 16 years. Deskovic talks about how sports in the prison system has saved his life for the past 16 years incarcerated. In prison, Deskovic explains how watching sports with his fellow inmates had brought them closer to each other and strengthened bonds, not only for him and the inmates but also with the guards. For someone like Deskovic, who was falsely accused of his crime, he often played basketball imagining he was Micheal Jordan himself. With doing this, he got away from it all by pretending he was in a big game himself. No matter what sport they had been playing, everyone respected the game or a "sense of honor" for the game. No matter whether it was sports on the t.v. or sports on the radio; it made it just a little easier to pass the hard times of prison. after 16 years in prison, Deskovic was realeased due to a innocence project, a project that was dedicated to overturning mistaken convictions.
I think sports is a great way for inmates to take their minds off the their time in prison. It is a good way to stay out of trouble and even make stronger bonds between inmates and faculty. Like deskovic states, it plays a large part in inmates life's to help cope and pass the time. If they ever took it away I think it was have terrible consequences for the whole prison.
Yes I agree with you about this. You can cope with others relieve stress and feel good. You can communicate a lot through sports. When you get alone through things that you could get hurt in its a good way to bond and get alone. I like the fact that they don't get attitudes and show a lot of aggression.
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