Anyway, we're going to the correctional facility to provide recreation for the inmates. It's a community service project we have worked out with the facility. They don't have the staff to properly provide recreational activities; and it also brings new people into to the facility rather than seeing the same people over and over. We're also closer to the inmate's ages than many of the staff members too.

I've done this before (played volleyball with this); but the board games are more of a social activity. So I'll actually be with these people conversing rather than just playing a sports game against them. Needless to saying, I'm a bit nervous. We're obviously not suppose to ask them what they did to be imprisoned. What kind of things to you say to an inmate? These seems like the potential for many awkward moments. How would you approach an evening of board games and coversation with prison inmates?