I'm all for treating prisoners humanely, but there is wide canyon between humanely and lavishly. If you are in prison, you did something wrong - you shouldn't have all the luxuries of life. You sacrificed those when you went and broke the law. When you got in trouble when you were little, you got your butt whooped or you were sent to timeout. You didn't get to play your Gameboy while you waited it out. Neither should prisoners even already have PS3s in prison.

From the article:

Although it’s unclear exactly how a PlayStation 3 might find its way inside a British prison, officials are taking steps to ensure that Sony’s next-gen system stays outside of those walls.

According to ITV News, British Home Secretary John Reid (left) said recently that the PS3 is banned from prisons. Responding to a question from Parliament, Reid added:

Advice was issued to all prisons in December 2005 that the Sony PlayStation 3 was barred from the prison estate because of the equipment’s ability to send and receive radio signals.

Read the full article over at gamepolitics.com