Found out where the tax money goes.........

[.Lethal]

What's wrong with Ludo and Snakes and Ladders?

Wait, you mean for xbox 360 right?

 

[tidusjar]

Make them play Runescape, that'll teach the blighters.

What if they try scamming or PKing!?!?
Will that result in a longer sentence?

 

[Mason-]

I'm going to take a stab in the dark and guess that there's a significant slice of the prison population that can't read or have learning difficulties.

Probably their fault! Didn't pay attention in school etc.

Or if for any other reason then fair enough however.

How about you teach them? Make them do GCSEs?

I'd much rather tax payer money was spent on educating prisoners than letting them sit on their arse all day playing CoD.

 

[cm1179]

this is absolute BS

I actually work in the prison service, and the latest consoles with network ability are a banned item, the only console they are allowed is ps2, and they have to buy it themselves, anything with wifi or ethernet is BANNED

i don't work in the prison service, i have never been in a prison, infact i can't say i've ever even seen a prison but i too, found the op a little hard to believe.
members of staff from a prison are going into game stores and purchasing games? would this happen, would they not get them delivered if this sort of thing did happen?

 

[Greenja]

The Government is spending £250,000 A DAY to pay for security for the Olympic stadium / grounds etc. I think £500 on some games pales in comparison.

No doubt the prison system is ****ed up, but the games budget isn't the issue.

 

[jimjamuk]

The Government is spending £250,000 A DAY to pay for security for the Olympic stadium / grounds etc. I think £500 on some games pales in comparison.

No doubt the prison system is ****ed up, but the games budget isn't the issue.

yes but the 250k is an investment compared to the money people wll spend during the event to keep it safe

500 quid is about 490 too much and thats just the one prison

 

[OpenToSuggestions]

I'd much rather tax payer money was spent on educating prisoners than letting them sit on their arse all day playing CoD.

This tbh.

Force them to get GCSE's or learn a trade. Not like they have anything else to do.....oh wait hand on **** that they will skive of the lessons and play COD .

I realise not all prisoners are thick, but it is a reasonable thing to say that most won't have any qualifications at all - Getting them to have a real-world trade is the best way to integrate them into society imo.

 

[shoes]

The Government is spending £250,000 A DAY to pay for security for the Olympic stadium / grounds etc. I think £500 on some games pales in comparison.

No doubt the prison system is ****ed up, but the games budget isn't the issue.

Should be more than adequately covered by the £840m tax bill from the olympic construction etc. then.

Meanwhile prisoners are economic parasites...

 

[Atrox]

"Prisoners should get an education and learn a trade so they can get jobs!"

Because that's working exceptionally well for those not currently incarcerated.

 

[SexyGreyFox]

yes but the 250k is an investment compared to the money people wll spend during the event to keep it safe

500 quid is about 490 too much and thats just the one prison

What about the safety of our Prison Officers?
I can speak from experience that I've been in the 'playroom' with 20 inmates with another colleague and one of them has kicked off because we haven't got the latest FIFA game.
£500 for not kicking off sounds quite cheap to me.
On the whole Officers are quite safe when the prison community is basically happy so don't think about the money being spent on the prisoners, think about the Officers and others who have to deal with these people every day.

 

[Vonhelmet]

Probably their fault! Didn't pay attention in school etc.

Or if for any other reason then fair enough however.

How about you teach them? Make them do GCSEs?

I'd much rather tax payer money was spent on educating prisoners than letting them sit on their arse all day playing CoD.

This may just rock your world, but I'm prepared to bet that money is spent on both.

 

[fieldy]

this is absolute BS

I actually work in the prison service, and the latest consoles with network ability are a banned item, the only console they are allowed is ps2, and they have to buy it themselves, anything with wifi or ethernet is BANNED

well you can choose to believe me or not - of course this is just an internet forum you dont know me and vice versa, but I am just telling you what I saw and heard

 

[elmarko]

Name one.

Out of most of Europe, the UK 'treats prisoners like prisoners' (ie locks most of them up like animals in cramped and sub-standard conditions) the most. Yet we have almost the highest reoffending rate per prisoner in the world, and almost the highest prison population in Europe.

Unfortunately most of The Great British Public (read: utter plebs) won't let politicians get away with sensible, evidence-based reforms to the prison and penal system in the UK because most of them read or are of the Daily Mail and The Sun mindset. The overwhelming majority of the public are desperately uninformed on the subject, and would much rather have their cockles warmed by the thought of prisoners in squaller rather than being socially rehabilitated. God forbid we ever adopt some German or Scandinavian reforms.

So, it is a self-fulfilling prophecy. The public demand we 'treat prisoners like prisoners' (read: animals), the prisoners come out and then commit even graver offences.

KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK, BRO.

This

 

[Soupy]

But where's the punishment of playing games...

Plenty if they only provide copies of Dragon Rising !

 

[jimjamuk]

What about the safety of our Prison Officers?
I can speak from experience that I've been in the 'playroom' with 20 inmates with another colleague and one of them has kicked off because we haven't got the latest FIFA game.
£500 for not kicking off sounds quite cheap to me.
On the whole Officers are quite safe when the prison community is basically happy so don't think about the money being spent on the prisoners, think about the Officers and others who have to deal with these people every day.

And this is why people percieve prison to be a complete waste of time.

So someone kicks off because they dont have Fifa - my kids kick off because they dont have Fifa and they are told they need to work hard at school / behave etc etc and then as a treat they might get the game

Next time it kicks off lock them in the cells until they realise they are actually in prison for a reason.

 

[MrMoonX]

I don't mean to sound dense but surely simply not giving the prisoners access to network cabling or a wifi network would sort that potential issue?

U can't control outside the walls, many city jails are near houses with wifi

 

[jimjamuk]

U can't control outside the walls, many city jails are near houses with wifi

shirley you would just install devices that blocked the normal spectrum used by mifi / wifi and the mobile phone networks

 

[Vonhelmet]

shirley you would just install devices that blocked the normal spectrum used by mifi / wifi and the mobile phone networks

Surely it's cheaper to just mandate that you don't bring risky devices in.

 

[Vonhelmet]

yes but the 250k is an investment compared to the money people wll spend during the event to keep it safe

Oh yeah, tell me another one. Greece says hi, by the way.

 

[Stretch]

shirley you would just install devices that blocked the normal spectrum used by mifi / wifi and the mobile phone networks

Or just ban devices with networking capability. Why spend the extra money screwing around?