TIL Prisoners in Belgium have a computer station with an headset and limited access to the internet in their cells. They can also order PPV films (including adult ones), "making the prison run more efficiently".
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A world-first system called PrisonCloud has been introduced in a prison in Antwerp, allowing prisoners to access the internet, make calls and download films from the privacy of their own cell.
He's in Beveren Prison, which is a short car-ride from Antwerp, and from his cell he can do what other prisoners in other parts of the world cannot.
It allows prisoners to access leisure and education opportunities in the privacy of their own cell, as well as making the prison run more efficiently.
There are no plans to install PrisonCloud in the UK. Even though David Cameron says he wants a modern and efficient prison system fit for the 21st Century, technology is a thorny issue in the context of prisons for two very good reasons: security and the risk of offending victims.
Officially, mobiles and smartphones are not allowed in prison but according to Kevin Hogg, who works for the National Victims Association, prisoners get around the restrictions.
Organisations like the Prisoner Education Trust and the Prison Reform Trust see a role for digital technology in prison, as long as systems are secure, and they anticipate some reference to it in a report into prison education by Dame Sally Coates due out shortly.
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