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08-04-2008, 04:11 PM
In an effort to make sure that prisoners are not bored, the UK is now supplying them with crime simulators to make them more efficient criminals when they are released.
I'm sure somebody thought it was a good idea, and that the video games would make the inmates turn gay and be more docile.
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Pampered prisoners supplied with £221,726 of PlayStations
By Simon Mcgee
03rd August 2008
Prisoners across the country are being supplied with computer games consoles costing thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money. The Prison Service has spent £221,726 on PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo systems and software to keep jailed criminals entertained. Ministers have previously admitted spending only £10,000 on the machines.
An audit carried out last month on Justice Secretary Jack Straw’s orders turned up 12,948 game consoles in prisons and young-offender institutions in England and Wales, showing how widespread their use is among the 83,600 prison population.
Pampered: A prisoner plays a PlayStation game in his cell
While most of them were bought by inmates themselves, a total of 1,715, costing between £100 and £300 each, was provided by the Prison Service.
The Ministry of Justice recently announced restrictions on the use of the games but critics said this was because the extent of their use was going to be made public.
Officials at the department admitted that there was nothing to stop violent 18-rated games being played on taxpayer-funded machines and conceded that prison authorities may have purchased violent titles for some inmates.
Tory MP Nigel Evans, to whom Mr Straw disclosed the figures in a letter, said: ‘Does being sent down for five years of hard PlayStation playing serve as rehabilitation or punishment? This is rewarding criminal behaviour with equipment which many victims of crime could only dream of affording for their children. People will be outraged by this revelation.’
Shadow Justice Secretary Nick Herbert said: ‘While Ministers protest that there is no money for prison places or rehabilitation schemes, they waste taxpayers’ funds on luxuries which prisoners shouldn’t have. ‘Offenders should be learning and preparing for the world of work, not idly playing Grand Theft Auto and preparing to return to crime.’
It was disclosed recently that thousands of inmates have access to Sky TV and computers, and last week it was revealed that more money is spent on food for prisoners in police cells than for NHS patients. Prisoners are allowed to play 18-rated games such as Grand Theft Auto and Manhunt, which are notorious for their extreme violence. However, from October, 18-rated titles will be banned in prisons altogether and the use of consoles will be restricted to only the best behaved prisoners or those on suicide watch.
In his letter to Mr Evans, Mr Straw claimed he had not known of the arrangement until recently. He wrote: ‘I was unhappy when I first heard [in April] that public money was being spent on games consoles, and ordered a review of this policy. I have now decided that, with immediate effect, no public money will be spent on games consoles.’
A Ministry of Justice spokesman said decisions about purchasing consoles for inmates had been made on ‘a prison-by-prison basis’.
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When these criminals are eventually released, their first crime will be to steal a new playstation 3 console, and rip off some games, too.
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Re: UK promoting criminal recidivism: -
08-04-2008, 05:10 PM
Disgraceful. Where in the Holy Bible does it say to give criminal scum copies of Super Mario Gay-laxatives? Not only does this totally defeat the punishment aspect, it also ruins any chance of rehabilitation they may have. Can you imagine someone playing with Nipponese wiisticks for a decade and then going straight - in any sense of the word - at the end of it? Not very likely.
O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it--for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.
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Re: UK promoting criminal recidivism: -
08-05-2008, 01:50 AM
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Originally Posted by Brother Temperance
Disgraceful. Where in the Holy Bible does it say to give criminal scum copies of Super Mario Gay-laxatives? Not only does this totally defeat the punishment aspect, it also ruins any chance of rehabilitation they may have. Can you imagine someone playing with Nipponese wiisticks for a decade and then going straight - in any sense of the word - at the end of it? Not very likely.
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It is a sick world when the criminal scum we lock up in jail have the same possessions/freedoms as all the free roaming idiot homers.
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Luke 12:5- But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.
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