Death row didn’t offer any of the educational or mental-health programs available in regular prisons; rehabilitation isn’t the goal for those on death row, and special programming is not always logistically feasible for people held in solitary confinement. For these players, the games served as their life-skills course, anger-management class and drug counseling, too.

Great piece from Keri Blakinger. The whole story is soul crushing. I'll never understand the obsession of the American prison system with extracting the maximum amount of retribution from those who are incarcerated.