I did post a link. It's not showing up for you? I see it.
Apparently in Britain you can buy lottery tickets while in prison.

Here's the link again. Just in case.

http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?photoid=/cp/news/top/i/rapistlotto.jpg&floc=FF-APO-PLS&idq=/ff/story/0001/20040812/1716057286.htm