Prisoners Hacking PS3 to Charge Their Phones

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I work my ass of to buy a PS3 while those fuckers got PS3 for free??

WTF?

and we're paying for them to live... a better life than us?

I wouldn't exactly call that hacking, a better word would be "Modifying"

PS3's inside prison cells and ordering meals??? Talk about "doing time" in style !

What kind of crime do I need to commit to go to THAT prison?

the only crime here is allowing prisoners to have ps3's and not detecting mobile phone useage...

Pickpocket Uncle Sam, or copy some music or computer games. But don't rape or kill, you'll get only slapped on the wrist and fined for that.

Aren't prisons supposed to be CORRECTIONAL facilities? How come then they can sit on their asses playing games, watching TV, have meals ordered and even earn money in prison, while the rest of us law abiding grunts have to work to the grave only to see Uncle Sam take most of it in taxes, and the rest by rampaging price raises? And they even send the bill for running that prison to us tax payers...

Pheh, crime does pay apparently. Now where are those pirated games, I need to cut my living costs and get dinner served for me....

I love the message we're sending to people: "Commit a crime, go to prison, have free room & board, oh, and enjoy playing PS3!"

"and given that it used to be able to officially run Linux."

Finish your sentences; holy crap.

I hope that the only ones getting the PS3's in their cell are U.S. citizen prisoners....=(

Oh, wait a minute. This is prison, the people in there are supposed to be punished for something they did wrong. Being able to play PS3 and watch TV is more like a reward don't you think?

It's like grounding you kid to his room but all of his toys are in there.

The thing to note here is that it is on one highly controversial experimental prison in the UK, actually correctly called a correction facility, which focus on rehabilitation of inmates from lower social classes but otherwise well functioning with minor sentences, which includes in-prison education, and after served time help with finding jobs, housing and so on. The education and all related services that are beyond what you'd normally have in a regular prison is self-payed in the sense that the inmates agree to follow the programmes while in prison and to be monitored after served time until they have repayed their services, in effect that could be many many years after the served time.

Where does it say they are PS3's? Are you sure they aren't PS2's? I remember the same story from over a year ago saying it was a PS2, I believe even the same newspaper.

In fact I am correct here is the same story from 2009, same paper, same prison.

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/ [...] -21672452/

I should correct myself here. I guess it isn't particularly the same prison. However it is the same author.

Dear god UK, WTH is wrong with you? Allowing your inmates, of any criminal status, to play games and watch TV WHILE IN THEIR CELLS?!!

Nevermind the Californian prisons where inmates are living in luxury with high class sports arenas, game rooms with pool tables and ping pong tables.

Nor the Illinois prison that looks like a resort with beautiful glass vistas on the surrounding landscape and illegals flooding the cells.

Actually, on second thought, we're not that much better. How bout this, screw all progressive govn'ts that afford such wealth to the wrongdoers of their countries. Prison is a punishment, not a reinforcement.

Looks like the experiment is working...they're producing a better class of criminal.

When can we get back to the chain gangs hammering rocks, eating bread and water, and serving their hard time?

Yeah, living in a cell is not enough of a punishment. Lets flog them at least once a week, it will help "correcting".

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I seriously doubt the silly assumption of the journalist about flat TV and PS3s in cells is correct.

they can get a mouse or get a cell one in but not a wire to charge it or a USB AC Charger Adapter Plug?

I'd love to do some time to play gran turismo.

actually you pay for federal prisons, and some state run ones. prisons with this kind of stuff are private. and they make money off the prisons, by putting them to work, and work jobs that are the equivilany of 15-20$ an hour. the state pays their basic liveing costs, which is 10-15grand. based on performance, they may get better cells and the like, and some, you can pay 350-1500 a day to get a better living arrangement, think a 200$ hotel equivilant at best. that comest to ove a million a year, if they self upgrade.

and prisions are supost to be corectional ficilities. but the ones we all think of actualy breed harder criminals than when they went in

Do you people read? This was in the UK...has nothing to do with Uncle Sam. FYI I rather prisoners play games in their cells, than become bored and violent and murder gurads and try to escape.

Don't you guys know that violent games are excellent ways to release all your pent up anger and anxiety without doing much harm on society? That's why the inmates there have to attend computer classes on how to play the video games. Just love the UK.

...and one of the main reasons they need to charge their illegal phones is so that they can continue to direct serious organised crimes from within their jail cells. Time to install phone jammers perhaps?

CCTV everywhere, detention without charge or trial, proposals for internet censorship and (until recently) the government was trying to force compulsory ID cards on everyone. Welcome to modern Britain: we treat the public like criminals and criminals like spoiled teenagers.

Yeah! Just another example of the Tards that lead the UK screwing their citizens.

Between them and the EU courts I can't believe anyone still lives in Europe.

So the governor of the prison can't even keep locked-down prisoners from obtaining and using cellphones right under his nose? If I was that guy I'd be too embarrassed to hold my head up in public. If I was in charge of that guy I would have fired him already.

This is something I could have done in 6th grade.....why is it impressive? The black is ground the red is 5V DC power and the other 2 are data......

Wonder how long it took them to figure out haha

I'm fine with prisoner's having consoles...but they should only allowed to play The Suffering

In some prisons, they allow TV or consoles for those prisoners who maybe in their for LIFE. It helps keep them in control. When the prisoner is bad - just like a kid, they'll take away the toys.

They are locked up 24/7. They can't eat or do much of anything they want other than interact with other prisoners. Those PS3s are NOT free. They are purchased by the family of the prisoners. They are also non-standard (at least in the USA) with clear bodies so the guards can tell if anything is hidden inside.

A friend of mine went to prison for a drug charge (She shouldn't have dated a drug dealer), she had about 2 months of freedom when she found out and she had to turn herself in. 6 months, no problem... then she found out there was an error and it was really for 12 months!

Things I learned from her, visiting at least 1-2 times a month. Even when they transfered her 100 miles away.

- Food is fine
- lots of Lesbian stuff going on.
- Don't do Lesbian stuff (She's bi, but didn't tell anyone... because what causes fights in prison is jealousy, relationships, etc - we've both shared boobs before in the outside world eheheh)
- Some people in prison BELONG in Prison.

- prisoners are VERY horny. I joked about "oops, you guys almost locked me up in here", the guard and my friend said "You would be raped" by the women.

- Gay prisoners are not in the same area as regular prisoners. (Yes, non-gay males may do M-M sex, but not because they're gay - its different) Why? Gay prisoners would rape the others.

- Mean Female Prisoners are dangerous, they would sexually assault another woman with objects in very bad ways. My friend is cute and friendly... and did pretty good, kept her nose clean there.

- If you are a prisoner, every time you get a visitor, they strip you down before and after the visit to do a cavity search. She said, for visits from people on the outside - its worth it.

- Brings lots and lots of quarters for visits.

- Guards in Prison know the good people (prisoners and visitors) from the bad. So be cool and they are cool. Its just a job.

- Don't go to prison. It doesn't look like fun or cool. Its cold, its bright, its noisy and yes... getting caught masturbating can result in 1-2 months added to your sentence.

Finish your sentences, indeed, in luxury with TV and game stations.

In Indonesia & Denmark, they even hire criminals & pay them BIG money. It's a sick world!

It's a well known fact the UK prison system is broken, it's a holiday camp, you ask anyone who's been inside they'll tell you the same! I've heard by someone who robs warehouses regularly that it's worth doing for the short sentences he gets and prison isn't exactly hard, he has three houses which he rents, and lives for free whilst inside, and can order anything he likes out the Argos catalogue whilst there.

It's all well and good to say it keeps them from getting bored, violent, etc but seriously, expensive luxury items? Myself and my partner on low incomes have to scrimp and save each month, sometimes it's tight especially during winter with increased gas bills, we had to save up for four months to get a PS3 and it wasn't new, it was a broken one from eBay and we brought a replacement laser and repaired it our selves, we spent £110 in total. We had to work and save our arses off to get a luxury item which I think we deserved.

But people who commit crimes can live a better life than we do, how is that fair? Should people that commit crimes be punished rather than have i good? There's other ways to keep them bored, books for starters, maybe they'll learn something then instead of spending their time gaming.

It makes me seriously consider taking up crime!!!

Not sure about the U.K, but in the U.S criminals have to work 3-10x as much as you do for the same stuff. The prisons have their own stores that criminals use money they earned by Making Dentures, License plates, fancy wood boats, etc. Nothing comes free, even to prisoners who get paid 40 cents a day I believe. Unless you've studied prison life I wouldn't speak on this subject. Source: Law class/Documentaries.

I am danish and live in Denmark, and have never heard of such practise. Please provide proof.