You might be surprised to learn that some prison inmates in the United States have access to video games. Of course, your gaming experience inside of prison walls is completely different from the free world.
Inmates do not have access to XBox, Playstation, or any other gaming console. Instead, many inmates play video games via inmate tablets. Prisons throughout the United States are starting inmate tablet programs, with some DOCs providing their inmates with tablets for free, and others allowing inmates to buy the tablets from the commissary.
The companies who provide these tablets, JPay and GTL, don’t share what kind of games are available. But, from those I have talked to, the games that are available are simple phone games like Solitaire. The sad thing is that the price for tablet games in prison can be as much as $10, so many inmates can’t afford it or aren’t willing to spend that kind of money for a game.