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Originally Posted by Xaccers
Sorry, your point was that it was unfair to people who've not comitted a crime but can't afford broadband.
How is it unfair when those people can also get free high speed internet access?
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I still have a point, if I didn't have broadband at home how would I be able to obtain free broadband access?
Yes, this week I would because I am off work, but any other week the library would be closed by the time I finish work. Soldiers in Afghanistan have an allocated time and have to queue for ages to get to use a pc to send emails home. (That was certainly the case 6 months ago)
Prisoners are in there to be stripped of all the nice things in life, they are there to be provided with the basic requirements as a form of punishment. As I said before education for criminals is an exception for using a pc, but I fail to see why that would need a connection to the outside world.
Perhaps a prison Intranet would be a safer compromise? There could be a method where prisoners request online books to download for eduactional reasons, that way there would be a tighter control.