PlayStation 3 Banned to Prevent Prison Break
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Sony consoles confiscated to prevent escape attempts from convicts.
Guests of Her Majesty Warwickshire’s Rye Hill prison have been banned from using PlayStation because of the serious threat the console poses for inmates to stage a prison break.
Sony’s PlayStation 3 is certainly no stranger to ‘criminal’ activity with users actively encouraged to rob, steal, pillage, and kill on infamous titles such as Grand Theft Auto IV. However, it’s not the games that the prison service is worried about rather it is the consoles capabilities to communicate with the outside world.
Prison wardens confiscated several PS3 consoles after inmates were caught using the built-in wireless connections to contact friends and associates on the outside. The wardens believed this posed a sufficient threat to security in order to blanket ban the console.
A spokesman for the prison service told The Guardian: “PlayStation 3 consoles are barred on the grounds that they have the capability to send and receive radio signals as an integral part of the equipment.” No word has been given yet on the playing status of other internet capable machines including Nintendo’s Wii and Microsoft’s Xbox 360.
Video games have long been a source of controversy due to worries that the more violent games could incite people to replicate the extreme actions seen on screen in a real-life scenario. However this is the first time that games consoles have been attributed to potential prison breaks. Perhaps games developers Rockstar, the team behind the Grand Theft Auto series could take some inspiration from today’s announcement.
Could Grand Theft Pentonville be the next big game to hit the shelves for Christmas ’09? Watch this space.
I was unaware that someone’s human rights involved playing PS3…! It’s PRISON. Give them some mailbags to sew, maybe some books to read. I love my PS3 and I’m proud to say I didn’t need to commit a crime to get it. All games consoles should be banned in prisons. It’s not a right but a privilege to play them.
Completely agree.
Who said this was about ‘human rights’? It certainly isn’t mentioned in the article.
I agree that prisoners have no ‘right’ to use video games consoles, but fortunately I don’t have to resort to Daily Mail-esque hyperbole about imagined ‘human rights’ claims to express that opinion.
All I meant was that if you are in prison having committed a crime you shouldn’t expect anything other than having the basic human rights. I believe it’s called “paying the price”.
Prison Break was an amazing show.
I don’t even have a PS3.
This makes me want to commit crime to get one.
Nice going Government.
Wow.
You’re an idiot.
Scum should eat s*** and die… commit a crime and you give up your rights!
People in prison are people.
H ester que estes bien escrive pr nt.
Bring back the show Prison Break.
So if I steal something and go to prison, I get to play PS3 all day?
Prison Break is the best in the world.