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Court To Prisoner: No Xbox 360 For You
jonklinger writes "An Israeli Court rejected the appeal of a prisoner who requested to have an Playstation 3 or Xbox 360 because there is no possibility to remove the internet connectivity apparatus from the device without harming its functionality. Therefore, prisoners cannot engage in gaming and will have to result to other kinds of violence."
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Because busy prisoners are peaceful prisoners. If they are gaming then they aren't planning riots, organising gangs or maintaining their drug-smuggling networks.
Then give them a useful task like building roads... Let them read a book or go to school. I don't have a PS3. Why should gang-banger joe in prison have better stuff than me?
What a noff-topic point.
"None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license." --John Milton
And how exactly will turning the prison system into an adult daycare promote rehabilitation? IMO, this is why the number of repeat offenders is so high. Give them high school and college courses, or let them otherwise learn a useful life skill; do anything but make prison an extended vacation for them.
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How do you plan to use that to fill up 100% of their time? Idle hands and all that jazz.
Harsher prisons only mean harsher people when they are finally let out.
A: If they work, they must be payed. Slavery is illegal.
B: some of them may have savings or income from outside prison.
C: Some of them may have relatives willing to buy them things or give them money directly.
Fear and punishment might give you a stiffy but they don't work. What we want is rehabilitated prisoners not people more angry and violent than when they went in.
Prisoners should be making big rocks into little rocks.
Well in that case, problem solved!