PS3 Banned from Prisons

UK Home Secretary John Reid has said that Sony’s PlayStation 3 will not be allowed in jails.

The decision was made based on fears surrounding the PS3’s Wi-Fi functionality and its ability to share data with Sony’s handheld PSP.

The decision was made based on fears surrounding the PS3’s Wi-Fi functionality and its ability to share data with Sony’s handheld PSP.”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,” said John Reid, in a response to shadow secreatery David Davis’ recent querying of Home Office regulations concerning the use of games consoles.
Back in June 2006, it was reported that PS2s had been banned from UK prisons due to inmates watching porn.