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PS3, 360, and DS banned as "threats to the peace"

Sept 10, 2007

Next-gen consoles have been banned from UK prisons due to concerns that they could be used to coordinate terror attacks.

Back in March, UK home secretary John Reid was quoted saying, "Advice was issued to all prisons in December 2005 that the Sony PlayStation 3 was barred from the prison estate because of the equipment's ability to send and receive radio signals."

The banning of game consoles in UK prisons has now seemingly been extended to Microsoft and Nintendo systems. UK tabloid The Sun reports that Microsoft's Xbox 360, Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's DS consoles have all reportedly been banned from prisons as threats to the peace.