Prisons in the press – 14th August
Posted: August 14, 2015 Filed under: News | Tags: Bridewell, Erwin James, independent monitoring board, LGBT, Nick Hardwick, PITP, staffing, women's prison, Yarl's Wood 1 CommentSlammer sold as student digs and a busy week for the Chief Inspector of prisons .
Liverpool’s Bridewell Prison soon to house students. Image: Bridewell by Charlie Dave
Prisons in the press brings you the best articles from the past week to keep you up-to-date on prison news.
Guardian journalist Erwin James on why prisoners should be allowed to vote
Posted: May 7, 2015 Filed under: News | Tags: discrimination, ECHR, Erwin James, General Election, right to vote 1 CommentFormer prisoner argues that the ban on prisoner voting is discriminatory.
Source: National Institution of Women’s Institutes/Flickr
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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