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There is no get-out-of-jail card on prisoners’ rights

It should be fun, one of these days, observing a back-bench Conservative MP canvassing for votes at his local slammer.

Could a couple of hundred votes be ignored in a tight marginal constituency where law and order is, like it or not, always an issue? The lads in D-wing should have plenty to say about penal policy.