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July 25th, 2008 @ 15:30
The Prison Reform Trust has banned inmates in England and Wales from playing adult-rated games, says the BBC.
Games are “no substitute for purposeful activity like work or education classes,” apparently.
However it’s not all doom and gloom if you’re a banged-up gamer, as those prisoners who “are demonstrably well-behaved, who commit to their sentence plan and fully comply with the prison regime” may own consoles and play kids games on it, only you’ll have to fork out on it yourselves as “no further public money” will be spent on your leisure time, says the prison service.
“Last year the government spent more than £10,000 on 80 PlayStations and 15 Xboxes for young offender institutions,” says the piece.
British prisons are clearly biased against Xbox.
By Mike Bowden
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July 25th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
They should be breaking rocks, not playing games!
July 25th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
give them kids games then have them all done for being peados… then make them break rocks
July 25th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
WTH?! Since when do prisoners get to play video games? they’re in a damn prison, not a holiday camp!
July 25th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
No /further/ public money will be spend? What was it like, before, “PlayStation - steal one, get one free”?
July 25th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
Oh, Gekidami: I guess they give RFoM to the XBoxers and Halo to the PlayStation people.
July 25th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
I agree Blerk. Here in the States we seem to coddle these losers/monsters as well. Why should jail be FUN? Jail should be something that people would NEVER want to go back to. This is stupid (and probably similar, like I said, here in America).
Hey, shouldn’t they be taking classes on welding or brick laying or something like that instead of how to kill Darko after delivering that last group of drugs for Little Jacob?
Also, aren’t video games supposed to make us more violent? Is that really a good idea for criminals? hehe