Scottish Prison Service

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/giving-prisoners-new-tvs-is-good-value-for-money-1.1068125

In short, the Scottish Prison service is buying 1600 flat-screen TVs with built in DVD players. They are provided them to inmates, for their cells.

I don't have comments about this per se, but I had to write something about the comments from the Prison Service spokesman.

“We are still going ahead with it,” said a spokesman. “We charge prisoners for them, so at the end of the day there’s no cost to the taxpayer.

“We actually make money. They probably last five or six years and we get £1 a week [from each prisoner in payment], so it doesn’t take long to recoup the cost of the telly.”

So, Mr. Spokesman, let me get this straight.

You charge prisoners, from the taxpayers money you give them each month, so there's no cost to taxpayers?

What's more, you're actually -making- money, by taking back a pound a week (of the taxpayers money you're giving the prisoners), so that after about two and a half years are up and the unit is 'paid for', it's clear profit all the way?

And we pay your salary!