Meet your future voters

The Government is ramming legislation through Parliament before the election to allow prisoners serving sentences of less than three years to vote.

Now many people might assume that someone in prison for a sentence of less than three years is a first or second time offender.

Far from it.

I asked the Department of Corrections what was the average number of convictions held by a prisoners serving a sentence of less than three years.

The answer is 50.

Yes 50. These are not first or second time offenders. They are hardened recidivist criminals who have created scores of victims.

So the Government wants to give the vote to these 1,985 prisoners who have an average 50 (NB this is now 30 – Corrections made a mistake in their calculations) convictions each.

Also of interest is that 40% of them, or 797, have gang affiliations (includes prospects and associates). Do you think they are going to suddenly stop committing crimes?