€145k taxpayers' bill for prisoners to watch Sky Sports

Mr.McLovin · 18-11-2014 05:05PM #1

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/145k-taxpayers-bill-for-prisoners-to-watch-sky-sports-30754201.html

its a hard knock life...

New figures provided by the Department of Justice show the Irish Prison Service paid €76,601 last year to multi-channel providers to provide Sky Sports and other channels for inmates.

Money well spent

"Prisoners do not have Sky Sports in their cells, they have access to basic free-to-air channels."

God help them!

"PS1 and PS2 consoles are allowed. No PS3 or PS4 are allowed as these can be enabled for internet access.

bit harsh?

Generic Dreadhead · 18-11-2014 05:06PM

Eww.... PS2, poor lads, those games do not date well, and not a SNES in sight

TwoShedsJackson · 18-11-2014 05:10PM

Just think, we could have paid a TD for a year with that money :mad:

SEPT 23 1989 · 18-11-2014 05:11PM

Do they have a little graphic of a pair of handcuffs instead of a pint glass at the bottom of the screen?

Turtwig · 18-11-2014 05:13PM

145k is pittance really. Making a mountain out of a molehill. Much we as we like to believe otherwise most people in prison are humans.

Timberrrrrrrr · 18-11-2014 05:15PM

Turtwig wrote: »

145k is pittance really. Making a mountain out of a molehill. Much we as we like to believe otherwise most people in prison are humans.

True

They are also their to be punished for their crimes.

Edit: I suppose having to watch h bog 1, 2, 3 & 4 is punishment enough

0byme75341jo28 · 18-11-2014 05:16PM

Sky are ripping them off..

FutureGuy · 18-11-2014 05:18PM

These scum can play Grand Theft Auto 3?

Disgraceful, I can only buy the first GTA for my younguns.

18-11-2014 05:18PM

I'm sure the prison staff get the benefit of watching these channels during their lunch or whatever too? Whole thing is a non issue if that's the case, and I would imagine it is.

Nodin · 18-11-2014 05:19PM

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

True

They are also their to be punished for their crimes.

Edit: I suppose having to watch h bog 1, 2, 3 & 4 is punishment enough

I'd say "the mask slips" but it actually fell off a while back.

whatawaster · 18-11-2014 05:19PM

Turtwig wrote: »

145k is pittance really. Making a mountain out of a molehill. Much we as we like to believe otherwise most people in prison are humans.

Humans do not need sky sports to thrive or even survive. We ought to use their time imprisoned to rehabilitate and educate. Any resources available should be targeted in those areas.

Karl Stein · 18-11-2014 05:19PM

I'm sure all those distractions help make the management of potentially troublesome prisoners a lot easier.

I mean, who in their right mind would want to stay in all day watching TV/Sports and playing consoles?

Wait a second....

whatawaster · 18-11-2014 05:21PM

Sacramento wrote: »

I'm sure the prison staff get the benefit of watching these channels during their lunch or whatever too? Whole thing is a non issue if that's the case, and I would imagine it is.

Public entities paying for pay-tv for their staff to enjoy on lunch would definitely come under waste of public funds.

What happened to a book, a newspaper, some conversation, a nice walk outside. Do workers need to catch up with Home and Away on their breaks?

efb · 18-11-2014 05:22PM

The gardai had sky sports in the barracks in Dundrum the day I volunteered for a line up.

Scobe looked nothing like me! He was scrawny

Nodin · 18-11-2014 05:23PM

whatawaster wrote: »

Humans do not need sky sports to thrive or even survive. We ought to use their time imprisoned to rehabilitate and educate. Any resources available should be targeted in those areas.

That would cost far more, and there seems zero appetite among the powers that be to go down that route.

VinLieger · 18-11-2014 05:24PM

So they are allowed to sit on their arses all day and watch tv and play games?

Put them to work digging ditches then fill in the ditches and make them dig them again.

Timberrrrrrrr · 18-11-2014 05:24PM

Nodin wrote: »

I'd say "the mask slips" but it actually fell off a while back.

Ah would you cop on, they have been called bog one and two since the 80's and 3 & 4 got added on when they started.

Fuhrer · 18-11-2014 05:26PM

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

Ah would you cop on, they have been called bog one and two since the 80's and 3 & 4 got added on when they started.

Ive never heard that before, what are they?

Turtyturd · 18-11-2014 05:27PM

Someone in the IPS Head office should ring up threatening to cancel the service and see if they can get 6months free....wonder if the paper would print that story.

efb · 18-11-2014 05:29PM

I'm sure it helps keeping the lags quiet

Menas · 18-11-2014 05:31PM

€145k per year on Sky subsciptions comes in at €32 per prisoner per year. Minuscule when compared to the total cost of €65,000 per year to keep em locked up.

whatawaster · 18-11-2014 05:35PM

Trigger Happy wrote: »

€145k per year on Sky subsciptions comes in at €32 per prisoner per year. Minuscule when compared to the total cost of €65,000 per year to keep em locked up.

Like so many of these things, it's the principle

Vincent Vega · 18-11-2014 05:35PM

FutureGuy wrote: »

These scum can play Grand Theft Auto 3?

Disgraceful, I can only buy the first GTA for my younguns.

And here I was lamenting the fact that I've just been left behind by the PS4/Xbone crowd.
These poor bastards have to make do with everything the other side of San Andreas

efb · 18-11-2014 05:35PM

whatawaster wrote: »

Like so many of these things, it's the principle

What principle?

kjl · 18-11-2014 05:38PM

They obviously aren't taking advantage of sky multiroom

efb · 18-11-2014 05:39PM

kjl wrote: »

They obviously aren't taking advantage of sky multiroom

Imagine the craic if they only had the magic eye, warden sticks on All Creatures Great and Small on ITV3...

Karl Stein · 18-11-2014 05:42PM

Trigger Happy wrote: »

€145k per year on Sky subsciptions comes in at €32 per prisoner per year.

And the €145K was over two years so probably less (unless you've used two years in your calculation)

kjl · 18-11-2014 05:46PM

Karl Stein wrote: »

And the €145K was over two years so probably less (unless you've used two years in your calculation)

it's about 1.3c a year per person in ireland

whatawaster · 18-11-2014 05:48PM

efb wrote: »

What principle?

Why are public funds being used to provide pay-tv to convicted criminals? There are plenty of free-to-air channels, so it is completely unnecessary. It doesn't matter what it costs, as there are sure to be better uses 145K (or any amount of money) could be put to in the prison services.

Menas · 18-11-2014 05:48PM

Karl Stein wrote: »

And the €145K was over two years so probably less (unless you've used two years in your calculation)

Ah, my point is thus doubled! €16 per prisoner per year.

They probably spend more on ketchup per prisoner per year.

efb · 18-11-2014 05:49PM

whatawaster wrote: »

Why are public funds being used to provide pay-tv to convicted criminals? There are plenty of free-to-air channels, so it is completely unnecessary. It doesn't matter what it costs, as there are sure to be better uses 145K (or any amount of money) could be put to in the prison services.

Maybe it helps keep the peace

€145k taxpayers' bill for prisoners to watch Sky Sports

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