“..Prisoners will soon have their own customised television content, in the form of two specially programmed “Corrections Channels”..”

“.. As the digital switchover date looms, the Corrections Department is upgrading its ageing master antenna television system – which provides a signal to prisoners’ cells and day rooms via a single antenna or dish.

A document on the upgrade released to The Dominion Post reveals the department considers it essential it retains control of new digital receivers such as Freeview -

- rather than providing each prisoner with their own.

“Freeview interactive features will not be available to prisoners due to the security risk this could pose long term.”..”

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