Quote Originally Posted by Ronin
i fail to see the paralelism between the situations.....it´s not like the prisioners are voting if they should stay in prision or not......and even if they were...the rest of the population would also vote.....which means they´d lose.
Well, they could vote for parties promising shorter prison terms. That's sort of the same thing.

This seems ridiculous. I'm all for ex-cons being allowed to vote, but you shouldn't be able to do it whilst you're in prison. It's part of your punishment.