In some jurisdictions there are no laws preventing prisoners (or at least certain categories of prisoners) from being elected to public office, and indeed many electorates have voted prisoners into office. For example, Bobby Sands was duly elected to the British Parliament in 1981 while imprisoned in HM Prison Maze for firearm possession. However, he wasn’t permitted to leave the prison to take his seat.
Are there any jurisdictions in which parliamentary privilege or some other law or convention furloughs prisoners who are elected to office so that they can take their seats?
I know that there was a famous case in the 1500s where an MP on his way to Parliament to introduce a bill was arrested and imprisoned by a local court. The court had jurisdiction over local tin mining and alleged that the MP’s bill constituted obstruction of tin mining. Parliament eventually ruled that the judiciary could not detain MPs from attending Parliament on the grounds of statements they made or intended to make there. However, this privilege didn’t apply to Bobby Sands, whose conviction preceded his election and was for a crime unrelated to Parliamentary activity.