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I think the main focus of prison should be rehabilitation and denying them the vote unnecessarily hinders that, if we say we live in a democracy where the people have the right to choose how we're governed then the state shouldn't be able to restrict that and pick and choose who can partake in it and who can't. There are a lot of prisoners who are very politically astute and it's fair that they be allowed the means to express that, your average prisoner isn't a crazed murderer or rapist or whatever, it's a normal human being who could have committed their crime for any number of reasons and should be given the support to be able to re enter society as a law abiding citizen; retaining their right to vote is a part of that