Guardian journalist Erwin James on why prisoners should be allowed to vote

Former prisoner argues that the ban on prisoner voting is discriminatory.

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Erwin James spent 20 years in prison before his release in 2004. He is now a Guardian journalist and author of A Life Inside. He wrote this post for Prison Watch UK to argue that prisoners’ right to vote has nothing to do with criminality and is simply a form of discrimination.

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