E-commerce platforms are helping prisoners save money, but security rules mean that when it comes to entertainment, their choices are limited — and decidedly retro.
Asked why inmates serving sentences for criminal activity should enjoy such a wide range of products, including a selection of vintage gaming consoles, Sauvé pointed to the universal human need for leisure.
Genuinely surprised ans pleased to see Canada treating prisoners as people.
Ya, I was a bit taken aback by that sentence at the end of a long article detailing how restricted their purchases are.
Prison shouldn’t necessarily be a punishment.
It should be for rehabilitation and confinement of those too dangerous to be rehabilitated.
If someone is sent to prison, if they can be rehabilitated a short sentence to punish them and a rehabilitation should be enough. Yes, it’s not fair that someone should be free after so-and-so amount of years if they killed someone while driving drunk and took more years from that person’s life, and no one will be happy. But it does no good keeping them locked up forever, it doesn’t fix anything and it doesn’t make anything better.
Taking away their freedom is definitely punishment enough it my eyes, be it for 3 years, 5 years, or 10. They don’t need to be in a concrete and iron cell with no window and nothing to do 24/7. Let them live a normal life in their prison, life will be hard enough when they get released and have to find a job and pay back debt after having to income for years.
Another big hit to the retro gaming market. That being said, I kinda hope we get a prison speed running league from this.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Inmates have purchased roughly $130,000 in vintage video gaming technology since federal prisons opened Amazon accounts last year, as security rules keep entertainment options mired decades in the past.
That means Canadian penitentiaries are places where the compact disc never died, Smart TVs are unknown and pioneering consoles like the Super Nintendo have endured decades past their prime.
The same goes for “material of a sexual nature that involves violence, coercion, degradation, bodily harm or threats thereof to a person, whether real or fictional,” and anything that promotes gangs or terrorist ideology.
CSC was unable to provide examples of any sexist, racist or genocidal games unavailable on its e-commerce accounts in accordance with those policies.
CSC did not respond to repeated requests for the complete list of items available through Amazon and Prototype, referring instead to its written policies for guidance on what is allowed.
Asked why inmates serving sentences for criminal activity should enjoy such a wide range of products, including a selection of vintage gaming consoles, Sauvé pointed to the universal human need for leisure.
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really why shouldn’t Alek Minassian get to play GTA in his cell why listening to Bernardo figure out Manhunt?