Prisons: Inmates' PlayStations banned amid escape fears

[wraggster]

A prison has banned inmates from using PlayStation 3 games consoles because they fear they could be used in an escape attempt. Inmates at Rye Hill prison, near Rugby, Warwickshire, were found to be using the consoles' built-in wireless connections to chat to friends outside prison. Wardens have confiscated the consoles over fears they pose a "significant threat" to prison security. A spokesman for the Prison Service said: "PlayStation 3 consoles are barred on the grounds that they have the capability to send and receive radio signals as an integral part of the equipment."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/jun/14/prisons-rye-hill-playstations

[Torgod13]

Why the FU@K do they even have PS3's in the first place!!! Let them break rocks for entertainment!! It's my fricken tax dollars!!! I can barely afford to buy my games and these FU@KERS commit crimes and play games.. man where did we go wrong?? :mad:

[Stew2000]

laughing my socks off that's funny.
btw it's not your tax dollars. it's my tax pounds. ;)

[DCRich]

Seriously, why the hell should any prisoner have a gaming console? those bastards are lucky they even get a tv for **** sakes. Whatever happened to doing hard time?

[Stew2000]

They get treated better then people earning less then minimum wage.
free health care. free food. free tv.