Another Prisoner’s Dilemma: Voting Rights of the Incarcerated

-Shivangi Gangwar

Prisoner rights usually take one’s attention towards the field of criminal law, constitutional law and human rights. Add voting rights to the mixture, and the result invariably falls in the exclusive domain of human rights, and thus by natural implication, constitutional law. Law and economics is an emerging field of analysis in India, and the purpose of this Short Note is to use this specific lens to analyse the question of voting rights of prisoners. While the author has undertaken a limited analysis of constitutional court decisions from other countries, the scope of this Short Note is limited to the Indian policy of disenfranchisement of detainees.

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