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The Voting Eligibility (Prisoners) Bill was drafted to give Members of Parliament three options on which to vote. Option 1 would retain the ban for prisoners jailed for over four years. Option 2 would retain the ban for prisoners jailed for over six months. Option 3 would retain the current ban with minor amendments.
In the United States, the Prison Litigation Reform Act, or PLRA, is a federal statute enacted in 1996 with the intent of limiting "frivolous lawsuits" by prisoners.Among its provisions, the PLRA requires prisoners to exhaust all possibly executive means of reform before filing for litigation, restricts the normal procedure of having the losing defendant pay legal fees (thus making fewer ...
Unlike most laws that burden the right of citizens to vote based on some form of social status, felony disenfranchisement laws have been held to be constitutional. In Richardson v. Ramirez (1974), the United States Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of felon disenfranchisement statutes, finding that the practice did not deny equal ...
A post shared on social media purports that the FBI announced that several prisons rigged their votes to favor Vice President Kamala Harris. X/Screenshot Verdict: False The FBI released a ...
Hirst v United Kingdom (No 2) (2005) ECHR 681 is a European Court of Human Rights case, where the court ruled that a blanket ban on British prisoners exercising the right to vote is contrary to the European Convention on Human Rights. The court did not state that all prisoners should be given voting rights.
A gruesome crime, a cruel penalty. Some might think justice was done. But was it?
The reason given is: The significance section, and potentially other parts of the article, require an update as in 2020 Parliament allowed prisoners serving less than 3 years imprisonment the right to vote. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. Last update: 7 September 2017 (November 2022)
The right to vote is the foundation of any democracy. Chief Justice Earl Warren, for example, wrote in Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U.S. 533, 555 (1964): "The right to vote freely for the candidate of one's choice is of the essence of a democratic society, and any restrictions on that right strike at the heart of representative government ...