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DOC Gets a Win With Creative Incentive-Based Program
December 17, 2020 GMT
Video Game Tournaments as Incentives for Prisons
MILL CREEK, Wash. - December 17, 2020 - ( Newswire.com )
The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections purchased eight PlayStation 4 Custom Sport Bundles from Fully Loaded Electronics to use in its activities department. The goal? Create an incentive-based program using the gaming devices to promote positive behavior among the inmates.
The positive impacts that gaming provides to inmates.
With the PlayStation purchase, the PA DOC was looking to create a program that promoted good behavior, reduced inmate stress, and allowed positive and controlled competition among the inmates. Behavior incentive programs use positive reinforcement (the ability to earn or purchase a gaming device) to teach and reward good behavior. Incentive programs only work when the incentive i