Tag: Helen Brown Coverdale

Prisoners should be allowed to share the responsibility of democracy through voting

Prisoners should be allowed to share the responsibility of democracy through voting

Prisoners continue to be disenfranchised, despite apparently being on the wrong side of a number of legal cases brought to the European Court of Human Rights. Helen Brown Coverdale argues that the Government should allow prisoners to vote, and that doing so would build legitimacy, benefit prisoners in their rehabilitation, and uphold human rights. Similar […]