To Vote or Not to Vote: Prison Reform Trust lodges a formal complaint with the Council of Europe

A prisoner voting in Basra. Image courtesy: daylife.com

So UK prisoners still aren’t allowed to vote. England is one of the last remaining countries in the EU to deny them the right, and the Prison Reform Trust has lodged a formal complaint with the Council of Europe, the Guardian reported yesterday.

Should prisoners be allowed to vote? Is voting a right or a privilege?

For Director of the Prison Reform Trust, Juliet Lyon’s, argument click here. Lyon argues it’s a right, as does ex-prisoner turned Guardian journalist Erwin James. When I find a suitably good riposte I’ll throw it on here too.