15-05-2025, 10:44 AM
Regardless of your views on prisoner voting, I don't get the "it is a breach of their human rights" argument. Confining them to prison is also a breach of their "human rights" and the general idea of prison is that committing certain crimes provides valid justification for either a temporary or permanent (in the case of a life sentence) removal of certain rights. Whether or not removal of the specific right to vote is justified, is a valid debate; however, that it is a human right in the first place doesn't provide any valid support for the "removal is unjustified" side of the argument (unless you're actually arguing that prisons should be abolished in their entirety).