Can you believe this shit?????

Young offenders locked up for crimes including burglary are being given PlayStations to play with behind bars - paid for by the taxpayer.
The Home Office has spent £7,200 on the latest computer games for inmates at Brinsford Young Offenders' Institution, near Wolverhampton.

Incredibly, the 72 consoles come with games including the notorious Grand Theft Auto - where players gain points for killing policemen, carjacking, selling drugs and committing armed robbery.

A source at the 493-inmate institution also said criminals were benefiting from driving lessons - a claim denied by the Home Office.

He said: "It's like Butlins. The regime is all about rehabilitation as opposed to punishment.

"The public would be shocked if they could see just how many privileges these people have.

"The gym is state-of-the-art, the computer consoles are the latest on the market and many also enjoy driving lessons in the prison grounds."

Brinsford was built on land formerly owned by the Ministry of Defence close to the M54 near Wolverhampton and opened in 1991.

It houses offenders aged between 15 and 21.

All cells have their own lavatories, TV and electricity supply.

Last night the rewards scheme was condemned by Shadow Home Secretary David Davis.

He said: "Reported rehabilitation rates are appalling low - it is vital that strategic leadership is provided and resources are channelled to purposeful activity that will actually help reduce re-offending."

Conservative MP Sir Patrick Cor-mack, whose South Staffordshire constituency includes Brinsford, said: "This seems a strange move.

"I'm due to go to Brinsford for one of my regular visits soon and I will certainly discuss this with the Governor."

A Home Office spokesman said the PlayStations had been bought as part of a national "incentive and earn" scheme at jails and young offender institutions.

It is designed to encourage "good behaviour, hard work and good discipline" by offering prisoners the opportunity to obtain additional privileges such as extra prison allowances, visits or the right to wear their own clothes.

Governors at individual prisons are free to devise their own rewards for inmates as part of the scheme.

The Home Office spokesman said: "The use of limited privileges such as access to PlayStations has proved to be a successful method of generating positive behaviour from prisoners.

"These privileges are removable if prisoners fail to maintain standards of behaviour and games are made available at each establishment at the governor's discretion.

"No juveniles have access to games with an 18 certificate."

He said it was possible other prisons were also using PlayStations or other computer games systems, but added that no prisons offered driving lessons to inmates.

Two years ago there was an outcry when it emerged prisoners at Shrewsbury jail had been given access to digital television set top boxes which allowed them to view extra channels.

The Freeview boxes were funded from a charitable trust overseen by the jail's Independent Monitoring Board.






I give up..

well great


im sure they will NEVER want to return to a place like that and will FOR SURE live their lives the best way possible now

nakedpianoplayer said:

I want a playstation, and digital box and an ensuite and free electricity and driving lessons!!!

REDBABY said:

thats cool, just go commit some kinda horrible crime and get locked up you'll be fine.....


oh, and tell them you cant live without the internet in your cell, that way we can keep you company

nakedpianoplayer said:

hell yeah, I will just trade in my playstation and get free online access 24/7..

This doesn't surprise me in the least. We all know that prisoners have access to anything (and I mean anything) they want while in jail.

Why do you think so many people don't give a shit whether they go to jail or not? They get whatever they want and they make money at the same time. They don't get any rehabilitation or any real punishment. It's like staying at the Motel 6. Perhaps it's not the Hilton, but Motel 6 ain't that bad either.

kisscamille said:

Cos there is no rehabilitation or punishment, so most cases when they are out they re-offend and 2 fingers up to everyone else..