Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats are trying to make it that convicts of 6 months or under still get to vote if they are in jail during an election.
Surely the whole point of becoming a 'convict' is that your privileges are taken away from you, so that you aren't tempted to do it again?
So if the petty criminals get the vote back whilst incarcerated surely the other inmates with long term sentences will also want the vote?
Also what are they going to learn if privileges aren't taken away?
Maybe petty criminals such as Vicky Pryce, and her estranged husband Chris Huhne should have just been given some grueling community service instead of a prison sentence? Maybe non-violent criminals should be treated differently, depending on the crime.
Maybe Britain really just needs to re-form it's justice system, because quite frankly, it isn't serving its purpose at the moment.
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