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Mississippi First to Begin Conjugal Visits, Latest to End Them
Loaded on Jan. 11, 2016
by David Reutter
Filed under:
Extended Family Visiting.
Location:
Mississippi.
After a century of using conjugal visits as prisoner –control practice, Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) Commissioner Christopher B. Epps has brought that privilege to an end. Only five states now allow conjugal visits.
In the Jim Crow days of the early 1900s, the warden of Parchman Farm, …
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