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Votes for prisoners

February 2023

  • Supporters of felon voting rights with sign 'let my people vote'

    The fight for democracy
    Could California be the latest state to restore voting rights to people with felony convictions?

    Proposal would allow prisoners to vote in what advocates see as a matter of racial justice – but challenges lie ahead

November 2019

  • Inmates in a prison.

    There are no votes in prisons – literally. So the system is left to rot

    Francisco Garcia
    If prisoners could vote, politicians would have to listen to their concerns, says writer Francisco Garcia

April 2019

  • US-POLITICS-VOTE-BUTTIGIEG<br>South Bend Mayor and Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg speaks at the West Side Democratic Club during a Dyngus Day celebration event on Monday, April 22, 2019 in South Bend, Indiana. - Buttigieg, the gay, liberal mayor of a small American city in the conservative bastion of Indiana, officially launched his presidential bid on April 14th, joining a crowded field of Democrats vying for their party’s nomination in 2020. Dyngus Day is a Polish holiday celebrating the end of Lent. It has been celebrated in South Bend for decades with kielbasa, polka music, and beer, and unofficially kicks off the city’s political campaign season. (Photo by KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI / AFP)KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP/Getty Images

    All prisoners must be able to vote, no matter what their crime

    Derecka Purnell
    Democratic candidates are split on voting rights for inmates but it’s time to ditch double standards that punish selectively

November 2018

  • Maya Goodfellow

    Want to make British democracy fairer? First make it easier to vote

    Maya Goodfellow
    Limiting access to the ballot box is part of the establishment’s power game, writes researcher Maya Goodfellow

October 2018

  • Advocates for voting rights outside the supreme court, which will decide wether Ohio state has the ability to purge voters from registration rolls for failing to vote in a two year period, and for failing to respond to a mailer.

    US voter suppression
    Midterms: how the votes of vulnerable groups are being suppressed

    Measures range from complex voter ID laws to restrictive voter registration procedures and bids to exclude more former felons from casting a ballot

May 2018

  • HMP Barlinnie in Glasgow

    Sturgeon pressed to allow prisoners to vote in Scottish elections

  • A truck leaves a polling place in Warren, Michigan

    It's time to let US prisoners vote. Democrats should take a stand

    Matt Bruenig

December 2017

  • The European court of human rights in Strasbourg

    Council of Europe accepts UK compromise on prisoner voting rights

    Deal to allow a small number of prisoners to vote brings to an end a 12-year standoff between Strasbourg and London

November 2017

  • Two prisoners doubling up in a single cell at HMP Littlehey

    Problems in prisons predate Tory rule

  • prisoner with hands on bars

    Up to 100 prisoners on short sentences to be given right to vote

October 2015

  • A prison cell

    Voting ban on prisoners convicted of serious crimes is lawful, EU court rules

  • hand on bars<br>AXXNJ0 hand on bars

    UK's prisoner voting ban likely to be ruled illegal by EU court

March 2015

  • Family of murdered Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane arrive for a media conference in London, 12 December 2012

    Uninvestigated Northern Ireland killings 'tarnish UK's reputation'

    Joint committee on human rights identifies prisoner voting rights and legacy of Troubles as weaknesses in government’s record

February 2015

  • A female prisoner in her cell at Brockhill women's prison in Redditch, Worcestershire.

    UK prisoners banned from voting: 'Can you put a value on the loss of this right?'

  • European court of human rights

    UK prisoners banned from voting not entitled to compensation

December 2014

  • Handcuffs hang from a gate

    ECHR cases won by UK government show flexibility of human rights system

    Strasbourg human rights court is ready to admit it gets things wrong when presented with good arguments

October 2014

  • European court of human rights

    Tory plans for European human rights convention will take UK back 50 years

    Depriving people of their rights would seem something of an overreaction to one or two adverse rulings from the European court, writes Joshua Rozenberg

12 August 2014

  • Ben Jennings

    Guardian Opinion cartoon
    Ben Jennings on prisoners’ right to vote - cartoon

    Ben Jennings

    European court of human rights says UK ban on prisoners voting is unlawful but they should not receive compensation

  • The Guardian view on voting rights for prisoners

    Editorial: The European human rights court is right. Britain’s blanket ban on votes for prisoners is wrong
  • European court of human rights in Strasbourg

    UK prisoners denied the vote should not be paid compensation, ECHR rules

    However, European court of human rights upholds its earlier ruling that a blanket ban on UK prisoners voting is unlawful

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