Voting Rights
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- Created on: 02-04-19 09:23
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- Should prisoners be given the right to vote?
- NO
- Those who commit a custodial crime against society should lose the right to have a say in how that society is run.
- The threat of losing the right to vote prevents crime and enhances civic responsibility.
- Giving convicted criminals the right to have a say in ow laws are made would undermine the principle of justice.
- Prisoners are concentrated in certain constituencies where they are unlikely to remain once free, so they should not be able to choose the local representative for those communities.
- YES
- The denial of the right to vote removes a sense of civic responsibility.
- There is no evidence that loss of the franchise acts as a deterrent.
- The right to vote is fundamental and cannot be removed.
- Removal of the vote makes a prisoner a non-person and further alienates them from society.
- The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the blanket ban on prisoners is a violation of the Human Rights Act.
- NO
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