It sounds petty and annoying, but yes, they should have returned his PlayStation after it had been inspected. That is his personal property. If the game console had been lost, destroyed or stolen, he should get paid for its replacement.
I don’t usually side with inmates for much, but I do here. Those personal gadgets probably help to keep these people sane.
Bet the guy he murdered wouldn’t have minded playing PlayStation right now.
Having done time more than a few decades ago, I can attest (oh, btw . . . I was guilty) . . . to the the mental turmoil of a free nature now caged and very limited to exercise my brain besides reading . . . . (we didn't have TV's or stuff they have now), and in my opinion, ESPECIALLY Now that I am somewhat addicted to computer communication (like here, right now) and video games . . . . IF a Playstation is an allowable privilege and I've done nothing to jeopardise that, it should be returned . . . an' to the law an' order freaks ? . . . kill me now or allow what life I can live until then . . . . my brain is pretty much a prison in those circumstances . . . . my 2 cent's worth.
Given what he is in for, I think "sanity" went away a long time ago
A man serving between 50 years and life in the Wyoming prisons system for murdering a man and confining and sexually assaulting a woman
He’s a life for MURDER
I don’t give a crap if he’s uncomfortable
Where is it written that inmates should stay sane? Most of us think that they were not sane before they got there or they would not have murdered and raped. And how about not letting murderers have video games that let them relive their crimes over and over.
i don’t see a problem returning it AFTER it is “repaired”.
Just remove the BD tray from the CD Player, all System RAM, the system CPU, and wipe the main drive of all system files.
And microwave all his game cd’s for about 10 secs each.
He's in prison for punishment, not to be rewarded. The fact that they even allow game consoles in this prison system is ludicrous. It's just one more thing for inmates to extort each other over. They will extort other inmates over anything, and the more things they allow inmates to have, the more opportunity for extortion, and violence. Crap like that makes the job of uniformed staff that much more difficult because they have to deal with the fallout when problems over the consoles occur, and I'm sure they do occur.
I spent 25 years in uniform in NY State's prison system. It was bad enough they let them have cassette players. They were engraved with the inmate's ID number before being handed over to them, but we'd regularly find stolen players with the numbers scratched out in possession of other inmates, who in turn were written up for being in possession of stolen property. It was an unending headache. As well, inmates would take the cassette players apart, and use the motor to make tattoo machines. Tattoos in prison are illegal.
If they were sane, they wouldn’t be in prison in the first place. Do you realize how many mentally ill people are doing time in jails and prisons in this country? You’d be surprised at the amount of money Federal, State, City, and County governments pay for drugs to keep these convicts sedated. Not to mention the drugs they can get in on visits, or through corruptible staff. They close the psych centers, and these people end up in the prison systems. I know, because I saw it happen over a 25 year career in corrections.