Terry Coss was a professional finance expert from Burford who was sent to prison for a white collar crime.
 Going to prison and Brixton in particular was a complete shock to the system.
It was a dreadful place. You just wouldn't believe what it was like.  | | Terry Cross, former prison inmate |
The regime Terry encountered at Brixton prison shocked him so much he spent much of his time behind bars designing a board game. The game, "Incarceration", aims to show young people the misery of prison life and deter them from a life of crime. It is a board game with a serious message. The characters of the board game have been "banged up" and are trying to get out of jail. Their fate depends on the roll of the dice. As they travel about the board, players learn more and more about the frustrations and reality of prison life. Terry Coss said: "I was determined to do something for younger people, to make sure they realised what prison was about and to take away the glamour that TV put across." In the game, some of the rules are very strict and basically, very petty. You can get into trouble for walking on the grass, having your shirt out of your trousers or for having too many blankets. So, just when you've collected enough discharge cards to get out of jail, you could find yourself banged up in the block for a minor misdemeanour. Terry is currently in talks with the government in the hope of making "Incarceration" more widely available across Britain. Terry Coss said: "The talks with the Home Office" have gone very well. They want to see the game in every school in the country, at every young offenders unit and every probation unit."
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