Yes, and yes. Each cell here on death row (SCU) had a one inch hole drilled through the concrete wet wall just below the electrical outlet box where we can plug in our 13-inch LED HD TVs, which are provided for us by the government. A standard 75-ohm coaxial cable is passed through the hole and connected to the institutional cable TV network. We have 28 commercial channels and three institutional channels to choose from. Only a few are actually HD (at least part of the time).
These are the commercial channels (the first four are local stations and are part time HD, the rest are not HD): NBC, CBS, FOX, ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, TBS, TNT, USA, History, AMC, CMT, E!, A&E, Spike, SyFy, Discovery, BET, Univision, Galavision, FX, CNN, Fox News, Fox Sports, WGN, VH1, WeTV, and Oxygen.
The three prison channels are for education, religious services, and weekend DVD movies (PG only). (The education channel only plays the same basic math video over and over, and there has been no religious programs shown since I've been here).
I personally use the TV options menu to unselect the news, sports, Spanish, and prison channels, which leaves me 21 channels to choose from. About a year ago we had more channels, but only black and white TVs. The channels I miss the most are PBS and TCM.
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