Denying prisoners the vote creates a barrier to theirreintegration into society
Lacey, N.
(2013).
Denying prisoners the vote creates a barrier to theirreintegration into society.
(2013).
Denying prisoners the vote creates a barrier to theirreintegration into society.
Parliament is currently considering how to relax the UK’s restrictions on prisoner voting, which have been deemed in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights. In this post Nicola Lacey argues that our ongoing failure to extend voting rights to prisoners creates a powerful symbol of their exclusion from full membership of society.