Only some.. I met someone the other day that's just come out of prison. He had ps2's all day - Films and freeview TV. 3 hours of internet access a day... x
Prisons are all different - and any playstations and TV's must be paid for.
When my OH was in prison, he was allowed £12 a week (this was on the standard regime that all prisoners start with). With this money you can buy things such as razors, shower gel, other toiletries (you are given the very basics you need for free but anything above this must be paid for), writing pads and envelopes (stamps can be sent in by your loved ones, to pay for any letters over and above the one per day you are allowed to send), and any other luxuries you would like... my OH allowed himself a can of coke a week.
TV and Playstations work on the same basis, but are usually for those on the enhanced regime (built up over a period of time... my OH was never in there long enough). That said, if you share a cell with someone who wants one, you must pay for it too whether you like it or not... it was 50p a week for my OH when he was in HMP Durham.
Some prisons have excellent work schemes For instance, Wealstun Open (before it changed back to a closed prison) operated a system where they made the prison clothing for all the other prisons, my OH ran the office that did this whilst he was there. However, other prisons do not have many opportunities for "gainful employment", and as much as 22 hour lock ups. That is an awful lot of the day with nothing to do.
You can say all you want that it's punishment etc etc etc however as I've said before, all we achieve by this is harden the people in there and turn them further and further against society. Some people are plain bad... I know this, the man who raped me in 2007 is currently serving 18 years at Her Majesty's pleasure... and may never be released... however the vast majority are victims of circumstance. Drug problems are rife, and the number that cannot read and write astonishing.
The best thing we could do for these men and women is not lock them up with no TV all day - it is to educate them and get them clean. Rather than give them short sentences where no good can be done... send them to prison for longer but make damn sure they are clean and can at least add 2 and 2 when they come out. This would be cheaper in the long run but will never happen because it's not a vote winner.
I realise I sound like a broken record on this, but the fact is most people do not know what prisons are like, yet have very set black and white views on what they think it's like because the Daily Mail has told them.
This is a little bit of what my OH has written about his time inside (he now talks to 16 year olds about it all and how to avoid driving like a knob and end up like him)
"You can say what you like about prison, and how easy it is, how great you think the facilities are, how prison is like a holiday camp. It's none of those things. It's a demeaning, soul-less place full of sad and sometimes evil people who have lives none of us would ever want or even imagine. All the freedoms you take for granted are removed in the name of control and security to the point that you're constantly reminded how little value society as a whole places on your miserable little existence."
There are more deserving people out there who abide by the law. 
