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In addition to being a means of expression and a form of entertainment, currently the most popular, video games can become a teaching tool. Although the examples mostly come from what can be done with them in support both in schools and in academia, there are those who take other paths to turn them into a second chance at life, just like a project formed and applied in Argentina to their prisons.
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They bet on the development of video games in prisons in Argentina
Prison is a terrible place in any part of the world, but in Latin America it has its particularities due to the levels of crime and corruption, in some cases turning it into a true hell. Despite this, there are several programs that seek to change reality, perhaps not of the center as a whole, but of the people who serve their sentences there. In this case, the journal The Cry of the South (via Tarreo) presented details of the project Program for the Promotion of the Development of Video Games in Prisons, a multidisciplinary effort formed by the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Justice, the ELBA cooperative and the FUNDAV community of Argentina.
Through this program, already applied in 2 women’s penitentiary centers, it is sought that the inmates can focus their energy, attention and future perspective on the development of video games, seen as a creative expression but also as a product that entails a process. The objective is to provide an opportunity for education and the development of a profession that helps these people to find a job when they leave prison.
A life outside of prison, perhaps working in the video game industry
About. Mishka De Caro, coordinator of the program, revealed: “we work with the generation of collective knowledge. The intention is that they can carry out their ideas reflected in viable objects that are of interest to them. Although we do not want them to be self-referential, in many cases the first creations are and that’s fine. It’s about training professionals and not abandoning them when the program ends, but giving them tools to get a job. For now we have some interested studios that could hire them”.
Likewise, the program promotes the idea that it is not an activity to make prison time more bearable, but that it works as a life project. Hence, the importance of visualizing a future outside of prison and working in the gaming industry is insisted on.
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