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.