25-11-12, 05:07 PM
(25-11-12, 11:44 AM)spoonlamp link Wrote: I love that there's a discussion like this going on here and everyone can make their point and civil to each other! So many threads on da interwebz these days just end up with insults, flame wars and a massively off topic thread!
What about the argument that if prison is not just a punishment but also an attempt to rehabilitate, to make them more integrated into society and therefore less likely to re-offend, would giving them the vote not help this? Give people the information they need to make an opinion on an election must surely make them involved in a society?
why would you want to get them involved in society ?- look what they done when they was LAST involved in society !
why should they have an opinion to get some vote ?they should lose all rights when they over step the mark in the first place
this country needs to grow some balls and tear up the human rights bill and the eec court of appeal and send all these terrorists back to the countries wanting to try them for convictions and start building some 6ft by 6ft cells for prisoners with nothing in them exept straw for bedding and lock em up for 23.5 hours a day,it would save the country billions a year to build hospitals and lets face it -if you done a year or two locked up like that ,would you want to re offend as soon as you were released ?
shine on you crazy diamond