prison
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NYC Prisoners Given $15 Bootleg Game Boys
Because prison visits and social mingling have been curtailed recently as part of Covid-19 precautions, the New York City Department of Corrections have decided to buy 5500 handheld gaming machines at a cost of $US15 ($22) each to try and give inmates at the city’s prisons something else to do.
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French Court Says Prisoner Can’t Have A PS3 But Could Use Xbox 360
The latest Xbox 360 exclusive? French prisons. An inmate recently lost his appeal to have his PlayStation 3 and the privilege of playing it restored to him, and it seems the PS3’s on-board WiFi connection is the problem. Good ol’ Xbox 360, remember, didn’t have that feature on the Elite or the Arcade models.
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PS3 Breathes Life Into Prison Contraband
Crims locked up in a Scottish prison have found a novel use for their PS3s: employing them as charging stations for the mobile phones they’re not supposed to have.