[MTVN]

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

[King Gizzard]

Originally Posted by MTVN

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

a point well made but there are a lot of prisoners that will not learn and keep offending, however much rehabilitation you give them, it would be hard to differentiate between those who are responsible enough to vote and those that are not

[the truth]

Originally Posted by Nathan

a point well made but there are a lot of prisoners that will not learn and keep offending, however much rehabilitation you give them, it would be hard to differentiate between those who are responsible enough to vote and those that are not

exactly so why punish them all, when theres so much vast difference between them all? the worst prisoners will probably be too busy causing chaos to bother voting

[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by MTVN

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

I think the main focus of prison should be punishment tbh