Some funny things in it, you can read letters from inmates, there complaints etc etc, and about general prison life.

Prison News paper

Seems some prisoners can write quite intelligibly.

Prison Officers ghost writing for them?

A little extra income (every little helps) for them in this time of austerity.

I think it depends on where the articles are coming from, it's worth remembering that many prisoners are very intelligent. Some of the most intelligent people to ever live were criminals - misplaced intelligence but intelligence non-the-less

what a waste of taxpayers money

Inside Times isn't paid for in any way by the taxpayer, it funds itself purely by advertising.

http://www.insidetime.org/aboutus.asp