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The Get Out of Jail Free card frees the player from jail to continue playing and progress around the board without paying a fine, then must be returned to the respective deck upon playing it. As the card's text says, it can also be sold by the possessing player to another player for a price that is "agreeable by both".
In the game of Monopoly, one of the cards that you can get by landing on 'Chance' or 'Community Chest' is 'Get out of jail free'. This does exactly what it says on the tin: if you are sent to jail in the game, you can use the card to 'escape' immediately, without having to pay the $50 or wait the three turns mandated by the rules.
The Inmate Code (sometimes referred to as "Convict Code") refers to the rules and values that have developed among prisoners inside prisons' social systems. [1] The inmate code helps define an inmate's image as a model prisoner. The code helps to emphasize unity of prisoners against correctional workers.
Traditional or not, the “courtesy card” system is the rankest form of corruption. That it is institutionalized corruption makes it worse.
In a 2015 story in The Washington Post, the police chief of San Diego, Shelley Zimmerman, described Proposition 47 as "a virtual get-out-of-jail-free card." She and other police chiefs also expressed concern about the increasing phenomenon of "frequent fliers" – people who exploit Proposition 47 to commit crimes.
The military stress card was a rumored "Get out of jail free" card said to have allowed United States basic training recruits to halt their training at will by showing the card, probably originating with a United States Navy "Blues Card", a short-term experiment by the United States Navy to inform new recruits about available mental health resources.
It adds an eleventh "House/Hotel" die that can earn (or lose) a player Houses (worth $1000 each), earn Hotels (worth $5000, but only if a player has already earned 4 houses) and a "Get Out Of Jail Free" side that negates a previously rolled "Policeman". (This eleventh die cannot be rolled until a player completes a property group).
List of foreign nationals detained in North Korea; List of heads of state and government who were later imprisoned; List of longest prison sentences; List of longest prison sentences served; List of people sentenced to more than one life imprisonment; List of prisoners released by Israel in the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange