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Witness To Mass Incarceration
Witness to Mass Incarceration is a narrative-driven interactive story based on my life in federal prison. It is a brutally honest portrayal of the lack of humanity, how our lives inside are at risk every day, and the place you are forced to go within yourself to survive.
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2026 Webby People’s Voice Winner — Games: Social Impact & Public Service
How do you capture the inhumanity of prison?
The night before I left for prison, my mother told me prison would be harder for me than the concentration camp had been for her. WITNESS to Mass Incarceration: Chapter 1 is the true story of my first day inside federal prison, where within hours I realized I am no longer in the free world, and that my survival depended on learning the rules, both spoken and unspoken.
How do you translate that inhumanity into game design?
The computer game team decided to use a 2D narrative-driven journey, pixel art and point-and-click exploration to tell my story. We were committed to telling this story authentically and to build an immersive narrative to show the gamer the reality of the harsh life all prisoners face.
Gaming techniques like dragging and sliding objects were used in furtherance of the story. Each interaction reveals another layer of prison’s reality, immersing you in the fear, uncertainty, and emotional strain that define life behind bars.
This first chapter is one in a series which tells the story of my arrest, conviction, incarceration and release. We are creating this game for you to know and feel what it is like to face incarceration. It is our hope that this game brings awareness of the issue of mass incarceration.
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System requirements Windows · macOS
Windows
Minimum
Minimum:- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 (64-bit)
- Processor: Intel Core i3-2100 or AMD equivalent
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: DirectX 11 compatible graphics card (URP supported)
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 4 GB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX compatible
- VR Support: N/A
- Additional Notes: 64-bit processor and operating system required
Recommended
Recommended:- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
macOS
Minimum
Minimum:- OS: macOS
- Processor: Intel Core i5 or Apple M1
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Metal compatible graphics (URP supported)
- Storage: 4 GB available space
- Sound Card: CoreAudio compatible
- Additional Notes: Supports Intel and Apple Silicon
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Recommended:Game details Languages, features & support
- Publisher
- Witness To Mass Incarceration Inc.
- Brazilian rating
- 14
- Steam Germany rating
- 12
- Content warning
- WITNESS to Mass Incarceration deals with the reality of prison. In Chapter 1, you experience my first day inside, including the strip search where I am told to remove my clothes so my body can be inspected. It is not graphic, but it is vulnerable and deeply uncomfortable. For anyone who has experienced sexual violence or trauma, this scene may be triggering. The game also explores fear, power, humiliation, and the constant awareness that your safety is never guaranteed. There is emotional intensity throughout. Nothing is sensationalized, but the truth itself can be disturbing.
- Features
- Single-player, Custom Volume Controls, Narrated Game Menus, #category_playable_at_your_own_pace, Playable without Timed Input, Family Sharing
- Languages
- English*
*languages with full audio support - Support
- [email protected]
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