Prisoners' rights Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 7 pages of analysis of Prisoner 001-it's Your Turn to Vote!.

Prisoners' rights Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 7 pages of analysis of Prisoner 001-it's Your Turn to Vote!.
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Prisoner 001-it's Your Turn to Vote!

Summary: Richard Sauve, a one-time motorcycle club member from Ontario, Canada, who was sentenced to life in prison for murder of a biker in Port Hope, Ontario, launched a challenge to the government for granting the voting right for prisoners. He has since won parole, earned a university degree and has continued to campaign for voting rights for those who remain in prison. By a 5-4 margin, the high court concluded Thursday October thirty first, 2001, that the federal government had failed to demonstrate any overriding social objective that could justify such an infringement of the Charter of Rights, thus granting prisoners the right to vote.
Being entitled a Canadian citizen grants many rights and privileges due to the fact that

Canada is a democratic and free society. The Canadian government allows its citizens to live a prosperous life without having to contend with the many hardships that people around the world

endure each and every day as a part of their lives. The court and judicial system in Canada is sometimes perceived to be a fairly lenient and forgiving one, whose purpose is more focused on the rights of the guilty, and their rehabilitation rather than appeasing the victims. This insurance of these rights is upheld by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which consists of many topics such as the right and freedom of speech, thought, religion and so forth. However,one of the most controversial aspects of this Charter is that of the voting right. In the past ninety three...

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