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UK prisoners 'paid to play'
By BBC News
Published: 10/18/2006

LONDON, ENGLAND - Violent and dangerous inmates at high security prisons are being paid by the Prison Service to play Scrabble, learn guitar and look after fish tanks. The criminals earn credits by taking part in "constructive activities". These credits are used to obtain such personal items as telephone cards, toiletries and tobacco.

The scheme, at jails like Whitemoor in Cambridgeshire and Wakefield in Yorkshire, is part of a rehabilitation regime, a Prison Service report said. Read more.

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