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Argument: Prisoners are unfit for society so unfit to vote
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- Debate: Prisoners right to vote - con argument.
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UK Shadow home secretary Ann Widdecombe said in 2001, "The courts have ruled that convicted prisoners, many of them dangerous, cannot be allowed to take part in normal society. How, therefore, can it be sensible to give them a say in how that society should be run?"[1]