Wichita ? Good behavior has earned BTK serial killer Dennis Rader the right to watch television, listen to the radio, read and draw in his prison cell.

Prosecutors had sought restrictions on such activities, saying they would allow Rader to relive his grisly, sex-fueled fantasies through images of women and children and written and broadcast accounts of his murders. But Rader earned the privileges through the Department of Corrections’ system to encourage good behavior, said Bill Miskell, a department spokesman.

The eased restrictions aren’t sitting well with some family members of Rader’s 10 victims and prosecutors who helped put him behind bars at the El Dorado Correctional Facility.

“We’re having a hard time understanding why somebody like this is allowed to earn privileges when all the evidence was presented as to how he can turn what most people would consider to be innocent into something that is evil,” said Kevin O’Connor, a deputy district attorney for Sedgwick County.

Georgia Mason, the mother of Nancy Fox, who was killed by Rader in 1977, was not pleased with Rader’s new status.

“I just don’t think he needs anything in that little cell,” she said.

Miskell said he couldn’t disclose what items Rader has obtained under the new rules. The spokesman did say that written materials with sexually explicit content would not be allowed.

Even with the new privileges, Miskell noted that Rader remains in the prison’s most restrictive environment. He is let out of his 8-foot-by-10-foot cell only one hour a day, five days a week, to shower and exercise.

Rader, who called himself BTK for his preferred method to “bind, torture and kill,” would have to serve a minimum of 175 years before he would be eligible for parole. Kansas had no death penalty at the time of the murders.

His chief public defender, Steve Osburn, said he did not think Rader posed a risk given prison security, and said denying his client written and visual materials could push him further into a fantasy world.