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Foreign criminals in UK given Wii gaming time!

StarJet | February 05, 2008 | News | Wii Misc 
In the UK, if a foreigner commits a crime, they are held in the Colebrook Immigration Removal Centre in Berkshire until they're deported. There, it seems that detainees are given Plasma TVs and Nintendo Wiis!
So, if you can't get a Wii, go to UK and commit a crime!
Foreign criminals are being given Nintendo Wiis and a plasma television to while away the time before their deportation, it has been claimed.
They can also buy goods at a store inside the facility and have them delivered to their cells by staff. A source at the centre claimed: "There are plasma TVs in some cells and 48in ones in the communal areas.

"Some detainees have Nintendo Wiis. If the consoles go wrong staff are sent to the nearest Argos to pick up a replacement

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  • 0 thumbs!
    m xdogz | February 05, 2008
    Lol , thats would be kewl . Lucky dem, unless they got a crappy game.
  • 2 thumbs!
    Gothic Girl | February 05, 2008
    It disgusts me that everyday hard-working people have to earn their own money to pay for a console and/or a plasma screen TV (and some might never be able to afford such luxuries), while criminals get them handed to them for nothing.
    I'm sensing a lack of justice here.
    • 0 thumbs!
      StarJet | February 05, 2008
      Well then, let's go on a murder spree! Wait... I don't have money for a trip to UK.
    • 0 thumbs!
      Woudo | February 05, 2008
      I agree (with Gothix Girl). Entertainment is necessary to prevent inmates from going insane, but to be given a console to use during their time in the prison is far to kind. Prison is supposed to be time to reflect on what bad decisions you've made in your life and how to prevent them, not playing Red Steel, Metroid Prime or Brawl.

      I'm hoping this only applies for low security prisons and nothing above that.
      • 1 thumbs!
        Gothic Girl | February 05, 2008
        If the inmates want entertainment, give them a ball to play with. Heck, if young school kids can think up plenty of games to play with a simple ball, then I'm sure inmates can find their own entertainment in that too.

        I don't like the idea of my tax-paying money going to luxuries for criminals that many good, honest, law-abiding people can't even afford for themselves.
  • 2 thumbs!
    Play ISDF | February 05, 2008
    Well since they are so generous in rewarding those people who do the wrong thing by letting them play games on big plasma TV's, maybe since I do the right thing they'd be kind enough to give me a few games, a PS3 and a Wii, a gigantic TV, oh and say...$1,000,000 in cash? Seriously this is pathetic and exceptionally lame. Tax payer's dollars going to this? Sheesh, sure give them a crappy tv to watch but a console and a plasma TV? That's pushing it.
  • 0 thumbs!
    Seeker X | February 05, 2008
    They're immigrants, so no need to be politically correct here.

    Now what part of Detention/"Rehabilitation" centers do people not get? It's supposed to teach you not to do this shit again, what just happened here?
  • 0 thumbs!
    kik36 | February 05, 2008
    So are they letting them play all of the banned copies of Manhunt 2?
    • 0 thumbs!
      StarJet | February 05, 2008
      That wouldn't be so wise, would it? Letting criminals play what Jack Thompson called a "Murder Simulator" would be totally crazy, wouldn't it?
      • 0 thumbs!
        kik36 | February 05, 2008
        Yeah, about as crazy as letting them play a Wii in the first place. That was the point. ~.^
  • 1 thumbs!
    NyffTotal90 | February 05, 2008
    "The detainees are being held at Colnbrook Immigration Removal Centre in Berkshire after serving time for offences including rape and murder."

    The prison system here in the UK is seriously flawed.
    • 0 thumbs!
      StarJet | February 06, 2008
      Pretty much, yeah. You rape a woman, you get to play Wii on a plasma screen. You kill a man (or woman), you get to play Wii on a plasma screen!!!!
      • 0 thumbs!
        Woudo | February 06, 2008
        You work hard, you buy a plasma screen, you work hard, you buy a Wii, you get murdered, and the murderer gets to play your wii on your plasma T.V. in prison!

        I'm sooo committing a felony.
  • 0 thumbs!
    The Primagen | February 08, 2008
    I can soooo see the rapists playing deweys adventure.

    But seriously this is stupid.
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    Mario_1 | February 11, 2008
    So, it's kind of like a juvenile-facility-style treatment, huh..?

    It kind of disgusts me that only the criminals who are foreign get treated like kids. Talk about racism.

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