The Guardian newspaper ran a story recently that stated:

"Inmates at Rye Hill prison, near Rugby, Warwickshire, were found to be using the (PS3) consoles' built-in wireless connections to chat to friends outside prison. Wardens have confiscated the consoles over fears they pose a 'significant threat' to prison security."

You can see the cached version of the tall tale here because the story itself has been pulled, mainly because it's untrue.

We've already reported back in May a Prison Service spokesman commenting, "Prisoners have never been allowed access to wireless enabled technology such as that used in some games consoles. Nor would they ever be allowed access to such technology. A decision was taken some years ago that the then current generation of games consoles should be barred because the capability to send or receive radio signals is an integral part of the equipment. Future games consoles with this ability will be banned. This ban applies to Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Nintendo DS."

Now incGamers has managed to get the Ministry of Justice to state, "There are not and never have been Playstation 3s at HMP Rye Hill."

A slow news day over at The Guardian can apparently be pepped up with a crime and videogame related tale...