Unit 3: Law & Order - Should prisoners get the vote?

About 7.000 prisoners would get the vote immediately
under the committee's recommendations

Prisoners serving jail terms of a year or less and those coming to the end of their sentences should be entitled to vote, a cross-party committee of MPs and peers has recommended. Click here to access the full article.

This is a cross party committee, but led b y the Conservative (and my MP) Crispin Blunt. Perhaps another example of Conservatives moving towards a more liberal approach to dealing with criminals.


It also highlights that UK will always look to the European Court of Human Rights when discussing legislation (a unit 4 topic)