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Well the Scottish parliament, Welsh Assembly, Northern Ireland Assembly and the UK Youth parliament are not considered subversive. So no reasons for there not to be a prisoners parliament.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I'm not really sure what a prisoners parliament would do beyond being a lobby group, which is what the Association of Prisoners already does (as far as I understand it).