Tag: JAIL

One would think that when you go to jail, luxuries like PlayStation and Xbox would have to be left behind, but quite often in the UK, video games are finding their way into prisons, sometimes on the British taxpayer's dime. A recent audit of the Prison Service found that it had spent £221,726 (almost $432,000) on consoles and video games for prisoners. Most of the roughly 13,000 consoles ...

Prisons in the UK and Wales banning prisoners from playing any video games rated 18. The ban accompanies a group of new restrictions placed on an increasingly overcrowded prison system. Now, only those who show good behavior or who are suicidal will have access to video games, but they have to purchase the gaming consoles themselves. The Prison Reform Trust stated that video games were "no ...

One music retailer in California has cornered the music cassette sales market. Big deal, you say? Well, it is when you consider that, in jail, digital music players are useless and CDs are dangerous contraband. But, for some reason, cassette tapes and players are allowed, which means that millions of people in this country are forced to use an outdated method of music distribution that many ...

One of the most problematic items of contraband that are sneaked into prisons are cell phones. More than drugs or weapons, cell phones cause headaches not just for the corrections officers, but also for law enforcement on the outside. With a cell phone, criminal masterminds can continue to direct actions outside the prison walls and have unmonitored communication with potential suppliers of ...

Its easy to get excited about video games, especially when playing online. After a long, difficult match against tough opponents sometimes you just want to jump up and proclaim your success to your friends. But, if you do that, be careful how you phrase that statement of greatness or you might find yourself in a very real jail. 29-year-old Thomas Ballard of Delhi, Louisiana had just ended a ...

About the only creature lower on the totem pole than the nefarious telemarketer is the spammer. With these creeps, you can't even take solace in the fact that they're only doing their job, which is why it fills us with a sick sense of giddiness every time one of these obnoxious mass-e-mailers gets tossed in the clink. The latest bozos to get nailed for filling our In-boxes with junk e-mail are ...

Cell phones are dangerous, not because of radiation or electric fields, but because they can help prisoners organize. In the last year, the state of California has confiscated over 1,000 mobile phones from prisoners, and one can only guess how many are still in circulation. Law enforcement officials are afraid that inmates could organize simultaneous riots in all of the state's 33 correctional ...