I just can't get excited about votes for prisoners.
My overwhelming feeling is the prisoners themselves are hardly likely to care very much. After all, if you are in the nick, surely you are more worried about things like snout, drugs, falling out with 'Mr Big', getting out, what to do when you get out. How many will actually vote ?
On a more serious, cenceptual note, we accept that prisoners have forfeited some extremely basic rights - freedom of movement, association, expression (partially) by their activities. Why should the right to vote (surely less crucial for prisoners) be singled out for special protection ?
And anyway, prisoners can still write to an MP or NACRO or similar if they have a grievance.
Ho hum
http://www.hoddereducation.co.uk/Colleges/Government---Politics.aspx?mRef=CNM01
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