from Corrections Corporation of America.

If I want to play a board-game that short, there are far simpler and far funnier ones.

"We are RepubliCONs, and we just don't do responsibility. It's not one of our 'values.' Smirk." - RepubliCONs (R).

only takes thirty minutes to play?

Well, that ain't Monopoly.

Kind of like a Tomb Raider where Lara Croft doesn't climb or jump. Oh, wait, that is exactly how the new one is. But hey the graphics are kick ass and she can kill people with a sweet bow.

Seriously, if children are not expected to be able to play a game that takes more than 30 minutes in their preteen years, how are they going to have the attention span for later development and study?

Idiocracy here we come.

Also, I don't think I've ever finished a game of Monopoly.

TlalocW

well it appears as if Hasbro as hit the target in redefining America.

Make the jail an ownable property, let the user charge rent, build houses and hotels on the space (though they represent jail and prison blocks).

Put a card in the Chance or Community Chest decks to throw someone else, a player of your choice, in jail. And when you do that to someone - you get to charge them rent as long as they are in jail (though if they pay triple rent, they can bail themselves out.) Of course, if you've built hotels on the jail, the rent and bail amounts can be extreme!