Should Prisoners Have the Right to Vote?

YES!!! Absolutely.

The Priminister says the thought of prisoners having the right to vote makes him feel physically sick. Oh dear. That makes me feel sick.

Let's imagine we lived in somewhere where laws were EXTREMELY unfair and many citizens were wrongly imprisoned and they didn't have the right to vote, so they couldn't do anything about it. Removing the prisoner's right to vote, removes their power to change a society that has taken away their freedom. The same thing applies in the UK today. Many people offend because their lives are difficult due to the how our society works. With a different government in power, with different policies, these people may not have been driven to commit crimes and indeed a different government might have had different sentencing policies. Which government gets into power possibly affects no one more than prisoners. You might say, they've broken the rules of our society that had been democratically decided upon,so they have forfeited their right to vote, but actually once we live in a society where you can imprison people and take away their right to vote, what could that lead to? Good people being imprisoned and having no power to change what has happened to them. Perhaps this is already happening? And, when you take away people's ability to change society through peaceful means, that's when they have to resort to violence.