In my opinion, prisoners should receive minimum pay for their work and should be able to vote in prison. Ex-prisoners should be able to buy guns and vote.
You can't really trust anyone who's been in prison for a violent crime. So unless you want life imprisonment for fist fights (and there are plenty of young men who are in a fist fight every other week for years on end), you have to accept that releasing any criminal carries a risk of another offense.
In my opinion, prisoners should...be able to vote in prison.
Potentially. But I also don't really see the need, or much great benefit. A lot of the people locked up have shown they aren't willing to play by the rules of society, why should they help dictate said rules? The cases of injustice - while important - would get overshadowed by other prisoners voting anyway. Even if I agree in theory, I don't see much practical upside, so I don't necessarily have a problem in sticking with existing precedent and having prisoners lose some rights while in prison.
Ex-prisoners should be able to buy guns and vote.
Absolutely. But we'd have to fix the prison system first, so only people who are actually ready to stop their criminal ways are being let out of prison. And I think maybe there should be an additional probationary period first, to make sure these released prisoners are reintegrating but, in theory, I'm totally in support of restoration of rights. If someone is let out, the message should be that they're ready to rejoin society. So they should get their rights back.
In my opinion, prisoners should receive minimum pay for their work and should be able to vote in prison. Ex-prisoners should be able to buy guns and vote.
I'd say that ought to depend on the crime.
If they cant be trusted to live as free people and enjoy all the rights of free people then why are they freed?
You can't really trust anyone who's been in prison for a violent crime. So unless you want life imprisonment for fist fights (and there are plenty of young men who are in a fist fight every other week for years on end), you have to accept that releasing any criminal carries a risk of another offense.
You can't trust anyone, period.
Every offender is a first time offender at one point.
Potentially. But I also don't really see the need, or much great benefit. A lot of the people locked up have shown they aren't willing to play by the rules of society, why should they help dictate said rules? The cases of injustice - while important - would get overshadowed by other prisoners voting anyway. Even if I agree in theory, I don't see much practical upside, so I don't necessarily have a problem in sticking with existing precedent and having prisoners lose some rights while in prison.
Absolutely. But we'd have to fix the prison system first, so only people who are actually ready to stop their criminal ways are being let out of prison. And I think maybe there should be an additional probationary period first, to make sure these released prisoners are reintegrating but, in theory, I'm totally in support of restoration of rights. If someone is let out, the message should be that they're ready to rejoin society. So they should get their rights back.