Posts tagged prisoners

Killer, nudist bond over video games in prison

by Kyle Orland (Jan 17th 2007 10:35AM)

It's really hard to make up a better lead sentence than the one that appeared in Monday's Daily Scotsman: "Shotgun killer Jamie Bain and Naked Rambler Stephen Gough have struck up an unlikely friendship in Saughton Prison over games on a PlayStation." The basis for this introduction, apparently, is ...

Video games are a part of prisoner rehabilitation

by Conrad Quilty-Harper (Jul 3rd 2006 2:25PM)

The issue of video games in prisons has resurfaced; this time the publicity surrounds a private prison in Florida purchasing two PlayStation 2 systems (with inmate commissary, not with tax dollars) as part of an attempt to relax prisoners. This comes after recent debates over the right of prisoners ...

Desperate Housewives to despair on PCs

by Dan Choi (Mar 27th 2006 11:27AM)

If all goes according to plan, fans of the desperate housewives on Wisteria Lane will be able to live out their soap opera dreams on their PCs before the TV show's canceled. Disney (which owns the ABC television network that distributes Desperate Housewives in the States) has set its Buena Vista ...