Prisoners banned from playing 18 rated video games
By Davey Winder in Editorial
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According to a news report from the BBC prisoners in England and Wales, but not Scotland because of the devolvement of parliamentary power within the United Kingdom, will soon find that they are no longer allowed to play 18 rated computer games.
The Prison Reform Trust has suggested that prisoners are spending more and more time in their cells due to overcrowding, and that computer games are of use to prison officers in order to help keep control under such conditions.
Is it just me, or does the fact that prisoners are playing computer games at all come as something of a shock? Perhaps not as much of a shock as discovering that in 2007 the UK government bought a total of 18 PlayStations and 15 Xbox consoles for young offender institutions at a cost in excess of £10,000.
Still, it is only prisoners who have been well behaved and committed to their sentence plans who get access to computer gaming in the first place. Committed to a sentence plan? What does that mean, not having tried to escape?
The BBC story suggests that those inmates which have reached an enhanced level under this ‘Incentives and Earned Privileges’ scheme will still get access to games, as will those on suicide watch, but nobody will be allowed 18 rated ones as from 30th September.
Apparently, the thinking being the suicide watch gamers is that access to a console can help occupy them during a period of increased vulnerability.
The good news is that even then, those eligible prisoners will now have to buy their own games consoles as the new rules now prohibit prisons from purchasing consoles or games.
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