Should prisoners get the vote?
Could prisoners get the vote for the first time in next year’s elections to the devolved parliaments and assemblies? Following a meeting on Monday of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers, the group expressed:
“Profound regret that despite the repeated calls of the Committee, the United Kingdom general election was held on 6 May 2010 with the blanket ban on the right of convicted prisoners in custody to vote still in place.”
The concerns expressed came following a series of high profile rulings in Europe that have supported the principle of votes for prisoners.
In 2005, the European Court of Human Rights ruled in the case of a prisoner who had been disenfranchised that denying those in prison the vote breached their right to vote under Article 3 of Protocol 1 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
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