Follow-up to How Euro Am I? from Casey’s Blog
with this:
UK prisoners should get vote, European court rules
A ruling from the European court of human rights today gave British prisoners the right to vote.
The
Strasbourg’s court’s decision means that legal changes will need to be
made to give prisoners the option to cast their vote in future national
and regional elections.
I’m not sure that I agree with this either:
Home Secretary intervenes in Lottery rapist row
I’m thinking aloud now (and haven’t formulated an immovable opinion) but….
It
seems to me that people who are put into prison are there because they
have chosen to break the rules of the society in which they live and
have therefore been removed from that society.
I think that
if you are removed from society you lose the right to participate in
that society (voting, buying lottery tickets etc.).
Shoot me now. I’ll be reading the Daily Mail next.
