[garinda]

Originally Posted by Gayle

For a start it was an attempt at humour because I thought you were joking along with me.

Secondly, if they have been incarcerted for killing their children at what point can you define whether it's wrongly or not? Surely anyone proven to be wrongly incarcerated would be freed and would therefore get all priviledges restored.

Finally, you've taken a point and twisted it again. My point is that prisoners are in there for a reason and that is not to get the priviledges that we none prisoners get - voting is not a basic need therefore, prisoners should not be allowed to vote. Prison should be a punishment and a time for reflection on their crimes. It should not be some woolly liberal fun house where they get the same freedoms as the rest of us.

I'll stand by this point as long as you want to keep arguing it but you're not changing my stance on the original issue by bringing in further convoluted arguments.

Well we'll have to agree to disagree I'm afraid. There were three high profile cases last year were women were freed after wrongly being accused of killing their children. Yes their freedom could be restored, but not their democratic right to vote in any elections they happened to have missed, were the sad case of cot deaths was interpreted as infanticide by a now struck off doctor.

Like I posted earlier, the best criminals are those outside the prison system. Each of whom has at present have the right to vote.