Cruel and Unusual
According to the Sunday Mirror:
Evil mum Karen Matthews has been given a £300 PlayStation in her jail cell as a reward for being a model prisoner.
Crikey. I can’t justify getting a PS3 for myself right now, and the state is just handing them out to people the tabloids are calling, without apparent fear of hyperbole, evil?
The article ends on an odd note, almost as if it originated from some poorly advised press release from Sony:
Players can create a virtual life in new feature PlayStation Home.
Retails at £299, games cost around £45.
The England football team play when they get together – and Lewis Hamilton plays racing games with his brother.
What’s confusing about this is that I was under the impression that the Wii and PS3 consoles were barred from use in UK prisons because of their built-in wifi capabilities. A search of Hansard via TWFY for Playstation 3 backs this up:
John Reid: Advice was issued to all prisons in December 2005 that the Sony Playstation 3 was barred from the prison estate because of the equipment’s ability to send and receive radio signals.
Has this advice been rescinded, or is the Mirror confused?
