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Re: Prisoners to get the vote
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Originally Posted by Gayle
They have the right to health care - I said in one of my earlier posts that prisoners have and should continue to get basic rights - i.e. food, bed and I could have added basic health care. What they shouldn't have is freedom and a vote is a freedom of sorts. People should stop confusing the provision of basic human rights with freedom.
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[quoye=Gayle] I'm so against it because I think that if someone has been found guilty of a crime and sent to prison then they should not have any rights other than basic needs, i.e. bed, food, etc.[/quote]
Sorry, I didn't realise that the 'etc.' was in fact the provision of basic health care.
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