PlayStation 3 barred from UK prisons

Personally I don't think prisons should have consoles, cable or satellite tv. Hell, I still debating with myself if I would let them have electricity and heating.

That would be for the most hardcore prisoners obviously. If you want to kill, rape and abuse kids then you deserve to be put in conditions that would make a concentration camp seem luxurious.

The minor theives and small time drug abusers would maybe get a bed.

But no way in hell are you getting a games of any sort, not even a virtual boy.

I'm sure that a Wii-mote would make a better shiv...

*waits for a photoshopping of a sharpened controller*

I don't see how PS3s are allowed in prisons...I think prisons should be a much more romantic place.

No no! Give them a Virtual Boy! That'll teach 'em.

THIS is living

We've got an overcrowding crisis in prisons and John Reid thinks now is the time he should be addressing that pressing issue of... PS3s?

Wait a second, british prisioners can have gaming consoles? I think prisioners where, you know, having a punishment, so they can appreciate the society they affected with their actions....

Umm, well, here in Mexico is a lot worse.

Snart!

The british prison system is a shambles.

They shouldn't have pool tables, never mind consoles. If the money spent on consoles (games + consoles + controllers + electricity) was spent on extra buildings or prison wardens, then it'd be better.

The prisoners don't deserve a cd-i or virtual boy, never mind ps3, 360 or wii.

I'd like to hope at least that the games brought in are strictly pg or 12 at the most (imagines prisoners playing wario ware and katamari damacy etc) or surely violence would be wrong type of games to have.

I'd say wii could be more dangerous because (as a peripheral says) it could be used as a nunchuk style device. Surely the wire of the numchuk could be used for choking someone, and the wiimote as a makeshift weapon/dildo which isn't good.

What british prisoners really need is... oh wait, they already have everything, consoles, television, rec rooms, good food, no taxes... what is the world coming to? The only tangible negative to being in jail is the fact that you might get raped up the butt.

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That can be more romantic than you ever imagined.

#1 (Kye) got it right.

Why are prisoners being given priviliges like this?

Are they on holidays?

Are you saying all I need for a life of gaming and movie watching is to comit murder and get arrested?


Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

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Whoa..

Wow, you people are some kinda crazy harsh.

Does anyone here, 'sides me, NOT work for Fox News?

Harsh? Yeah, we should be nicer to people who kill, rape, and murder. Now if someone took a chainsaw to me and dismembered me in a gruesome painful way, I'd want them to have a luxurious prison cell. In fact, I'd tell them to take my bloody dismembered arm and give themselves a high-five with it.

london jail is teh Biased@!

PS3 should be banned from Existance

Prison is supposed to be reform, you know.. not a fancy time out.

That's the problem in America.. It's a no holds barred pit of no rules or laws, where they're pretty much allowed to do anything. Rape is extremely common, and you can almost get away scott free with killing a guy, if you kill him in prison.

If you're going to submit a person to that, it's better you just execute them, as that's obviously not reform.

"16. Harsh? Yeah, we should be nicer to people who kill, rape, and murder. Now if someone took a chainsaw to me and dismembered me in a gruesome painful way, I'd want them to have a luxurious prison cell."

Heh... Not everyone is in prison for killing, raping, and then 'murder' on top of all that. Plus you should know that people who take chainsaws and dismember people NEVER get caught...








....Did I just hear someone pulling a starter on a chainsaw?

Wait? Prisoners can have game consoles? I thought that prison was supposed to be a friggen' punishment, not a reward. Think about it: you have all the time that you want to play video games, but you don't need to work. I'm thinking that I should go to prison. :P

Aren't we all already prisoners in our own clothes?... ahh! homes, was it?

l have had the experience of spending several sentences in a dozen or so prisons in the south west. l believe that the consoles PS3 or Wll what ever the platform should most definitely play a part in the prison reward system. l shall try to express why this is a better option to the views above. firstly most prisons are totally over crowed and very badly under funded and as a result of this there is very little work detail and education going on so inmates fester in 23 hour lock up and in those conditions drugs become the main motivator in an inmates day so they give up waiting for a space on education or employment and become more and more violent and aggressive in there endeavours to get hold of drugs to relieve the boredom and this escalation spills onto the streets when finally released but!! with rewards like the ps3 and other consoles give just that bit of hope of obtaining something in retern for good behaviour and full co-opperation. Inmates agree to complete councilling and victim awareness etc. If you picture ever one in prison with a console your definitey wrong very few inmates manage to complete everything and behave for three to six months which is how long approx it takes and even then you only go on to a rota where by it passes along to different inmates on the ENHANCED scheme. but even though not many actually get the consoles in there cell they live under hope of it may be a bit like some of you that work for a company and work very hard in the hope of becomming promoted or even manager but knowing the chances are very slim in most cases. As for the sex offenders rapist ect that is a very difficult question l do believe that crimes agaist children in the uk should be in completely different prisons specifically designed for them. The most crazy thing about that though is thay generally gat treated better by the system than the petty theives take my word l've seen it with my own eyes its a bloody scandal look at HMP Ley hill in Glouster SW its a fully open prison you can just walk off if you fill like it!!!! one of the most comfortable prisons in the country and its approx runs with half the population being sex offenders at least a dozen or so murders of children there now or at any time they even get given jobs in the community and get paid minimum wage or more!! thank you for your time phillip wright EX- Offender