Prisoners are deprived of the most basic freedoms, but come election day in April, according to the Independent Election Commission (IEC), voting centers will be set up in prisons around the country.
"In all the prisons and holding centers where we have Afghan prisoners that were not stripped of their civil rights, the IEC is committed to giving them the opportunity to submit their votes," IEC spokesman Noor Muhammad Noor said.
These mobile centers will only be open for a few hours and then votes will be transferred to the main center for counting, according to Noor.
IEC has sent mobile registration teams to prisons in order to register and distribute voting cards.
Badam Bagh Women's Prison has a total of 229 prisoners. Prisoners there said they were happy that the IEC is providing them with the opportunity to vote.
Based on statistics, there are currently over 20,000 prisoners in Afghanistan.
"I am one of the prisoners at the Badam Bagh Penitentiary and I have been here for 11 years," a female inmate named Nilofar told TOLOnews. "My only hope is that someone who is just wins."
"We will vote for someone who serves the people, and frees us," another female prisoner named Qabela said.
Despite being predicated on security and oversight, polls in voting centers could also expect monitors to preside over the process as will be the case for normal polling sites.
"We as an observing body for the elections, if security and judicial institutions provide the appropriate facilities, we will be there as an observer," said Nader Naderi, Director of the Free and Fair Election Foundation of Afghanistan (FEFA).