Inmates 'will be allowed to vote'

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2011&sol;02&sol;inmates-will-be-allowed-to-vote&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full" title&equals;"Justice Secretary Ken Clarke said the Government could not 'defy the law' and would have to allow some prisoners to vote" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2011&sol;02&sol;min-inmates-will-be-allowed-to-vote&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Justice Secretary Ken Clarke said the Government could not 'defy the law' and would have to allow some prisoners to vote"&sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Justice Secretary Ken Clarke has said the Government cannot &&num;8220&semi;defy the law&&num;8221&semi; and will have to allow at least some prisoners to vote in future&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It comes as the Commons&&num;8217&semi; Political and Constitutional Reform Committee found the current blanket ban was &&num;8220&semi;illegal under international law founded on the UK&&num;8217&semi;s treaty obligations&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>MPs will debate the ban and the UK&&num;8217&semi;s position in Parliament on Thursday ahead of a vote on the issue&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;We have to fulfil our obligations but we are not going to give the vote to any more prisoners than was necessary to comply with the law&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Mr Clarke told BBC Radio 4&&num;8217&semi;s Today&period; &&num;8220&semi;What we can&&num;8217&semi;t do is just defy the law and pretend we are going to go wandering off&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Clarke added&colon; &&num;8220&semi;The idea that we are going to give the vote to murderers and rapists and some of the more alarmist reports is complete nonsense&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Of course&comma; the most serious people can&&num;8217&semi;t possibly be given the vote &&num;8211&semi; they should lose their civil rights&period; Probably the least serious ones will obviously get the vote and there will be a cut-off somewhere&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Meanwhile&comma; the Archbishop of Canterbury has backed calls for prisoners to be given the right to vote&period; Dr Rowan Williams said prisoners&&num;8217&semi; civic status should not be put in &&num;8220&semi;cold storage&&num;8221&semi; while they are behind bars and the UK needed to move beyond a &&num;8220&semi;situation where the victimising of the prisoner by the denial of those basic civic issues is perpetuated&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Government is currently proposing to allow the vote to all inmates serving less than four years&comma; in response to a European Court of Human Rights ruling which could otherwise open up the floodgates to compensation claims totalling millions of pounds&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But the move &&num;8211&semi; which Prime Minister David Cameron said made him feel &&num;8220&semi;physically ill&&num;8221&semi; &&num;8211&semi; has been met by stiff opposition from some MPs&comma; and there have been indications that the vote may be restricted to those serving a year or less&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Thursday&&num;8217&semi;s motion&comma; tabled by Tory former shadow home secretary David Davis and Labour&&num;8217&semi;s former Justice Secretary Jack Straw&comma; states that the decision on prisoners&&num;8217&semi; votes should be one for democratically elected lawmakers and states that &&num;8220&semi;no sentenced prisoner&&num;8221&semi; should be granted the vote except those jailed for debt default or contempt of court&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ee7f6f14d15">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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