The thing about parrots...

Prisoners serving life sentences are being allowed to keep pet budgies, canaries and parrots in their cells, it has emerged.

More than 80 inmates at HMP Isle of Wight have been sold the birds at the discretion of prison governors for just £5 each.

The prisoners, most of whom are serving life imprisonment, are given the pets after they are bred in the prison’s own aviary, based on the Albany wing.

(via The prisoners who have their very own jailbirds: Convicts buying budgies, canaries and parrots to keep them company in cells | Mail Online)