UK convicted prisoners to get vote

Well, I think all of us have a rights to vote to exercise our freewill but if a convict has given their right to vote is a different issue, it depends on what are the political agenda being done by the government, its them who make the rules and eventually bend afterward.

I was watching a TV show this morning where they were discussing thisand couldn't understand why so many of them were against it. Most people in prison probably won't vote as they don't care about politics, and as criminals oppose the state anyway. I personally don't see why anyone should lose the right to vote unless they have committed election fraud, but some people are getting really up in arms about it. The other issue is if we don't give them the vote the government will have to pay them all £750 compensation each, so I think they should just be given the choice, as I said befor emost of them probably won't anyway.

Are the people in European Court of Human Rights out of their dang mind?! Why don't they just give the prisoners the key to their cell doors? I mean, come on!! They're going to vote on less time to be served or the person to be in office that agrees with less time or not so harsh sentences. Some people have so much book smarts that they don't have a lick of common sense! It's sad really. These prisoners KNEW they were giving up these rights when they committed the crime to begin with!

Everyone has 'human rights' Everyone has the right to live. Then along comes people (if thats the right word to describe them) like Peter Sutcliffe or Myra Hindle who take a person's life, ie their right to live. Now you expect me to be happy that they have the right to vote/have a say, as to how I live my life. How our country should be run etc... voting on their own beliefs. What an outrageous disgrace. There has only ever been 1 convict that I know , who's opinion and vote I would trust and that was 'Norman Stanley Fletcher's' And for fellow myLotters who know who 'N.S.F' is then they will realise just how much of a joke this new ruling by the Eurocrats is. For anyone who does not know who he was, I would suggest Googling him, he was in Slade Prison, UK

They are people like any other. They should have the right to vote because one day they can get out and they might want to try and be a better person with a better life. I dont see why they shouldnt. They know they broke the law but that doesnt mean that they can choose who make them.

What a nightmare! There is a reason why prisoners have been denied the right to vote. They forfeited that right when they chose to break the law! This is SO WRONG in so many ways!!!