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Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
Colorado Passes New Law to Expand Prisoner Visitation Rights by In early May 2025, the Colorado Legislature approved a bill that would increase visitation rights for incarcerated people. Signed into law by Democratic Gov. Jared Polis, the bill, HB25-1013, ends a policy in the state in which “inmate social visiting” …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
A Colorado Jail Has Banned In-Person Visits Since the Pandemic by For more than four years, beginning during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Boulder County Jail in Boulder, Colorado has remained closed to in-person visitations. Although prisons have returned to allowing visitors, many jails have yet to re-instate in-person access. At …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Two California Prisoners Accused of Strangling Conjugal Visitors by The death of a woman during a conjugal visit with her husband incarcerated at California’s Mule Creek State Prison was ruled a homicide by the Coroner’s Bureau of the Amador County Sheriff’s Office (ACSO) on March 17, 2025. David Brinson, 54, …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
New York Adding Names to Tombstones of Dead Prisoners by “We recognize them as people, not just a number,” said Rev. Alfred Twyman. The chaplain with New York’s Department of Corrections and Community Services (DOCCS) was talking about corpses of people who died in a state prison, in a report …
Article • April 1, 2021 • from PLN April, 2021
COVID-19 Inspired Ban on Prison Visits in Texas Ends by Chad Marks by Chad Marks At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Texas prison officials stopped all visits in the prison system between prisoners and families. Stopping the visits seemed to have little effect on keeping both prisoners and staff …
Article • November 6, 2018 • from PLN November, 2018
Public Outcry Forces Florida DOC to Back Down on Limits to In-Person Visitation by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Following an onslaught of pressure from the public and action by the Florida legislature’s Joint Administrative Procedures Committee (JAPC), the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) was forced to withdraw a …
Publication • January 29, 2018
To What End, Assessing the Impact of the Knox County Jail's Ban on In-Person Visits To What End?: Assessing the Impact of the Knox County Jail’s Ban on In-Person Visits Face To Face Knox Knoxville, TN January 29, 2018 Introduction Since April 2014, the Knox County Sheriff’s Office has banned …
Publication • January 1, 2018
"It Makes Me Want to Cry" Visiting Rikers Island ‘It Makes Me Want to Cry’: Visiting Rikers Island NYC Jails Action Coalition January 2018 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 1 Section I: The Importance of Visits 1 Section II: Visiting Rikers Island 2 Section III: What Visitors Say About Visiting 3 …
Face-to-Face Family Visits Return to Some Jails by By Mindy Fetterman, Stateline The jailhouse scene from 2014 remains vivid in Rebecca Shlafer’s mind. A 3-year-old girl came to the Washington County Jail in Stillwater, Minnesota, to see her dad. “She ran down the hall, jumped up in a chair and …
Legacy of Mass Incarceration: Parental Incarceration Impacts One in Fourteen Children by Christopher Zoukis A recent study by the research firm Child Trends revealed a stunning consequence of our nation’s policy and practice of mass incarceration: one out of every fourteen children in the U.S. has a parent who is …
This cruel new policy makes it near impossible for kids to see their incarcerated parents by By Dana Bazelon, Vox Unless you are an attorney, it requires a great deal of effort and some organization to visit someone in prison. You have to want it. There are forms to be signed …
Publication • January 1, 2017
Solidarity in Action, Sylvia Rivera Law Project, 2017 Solidarity in Action A Guide to Visiting Incarcerated Community Members The Sylvia Rivera Law Project works to guarantee that all people are free to self-determine their gender identity and expression, regardless of income or race, and without facing harassment, discrimination or violence. …
Oregon Prison Parenting Program Dramatically Reduces Recidivism by Mark Wilson Oregon prisoners who complete a parenting program are significantly less likely to engage in criminal behavior and substance abuse after release, a long-term study found. More than half of America’s 2.3 million prisoners have children under the age of 18 …
Study Argues that Conjugal Visits Can Reduce Number of Prison Rapes by Researchers at Florida International University contend that states where sexual intercourse between prisoners and their visiting spouses is allowed have fewer rapes and sexual assaults than states where conjugal visits are prohibited, El controversial finding that disputes the …
Idaho DOC Can’t Stop Love; State Senator’s Ex-wife Weds Prisoner by Mark Wilson Lance Conway Wood, 48, was described as “a strong-willed inmate” with an extensive “history of ‘crossing the line’” who “exploits the human weaknesses of prison staff,” according to a federal judge. Wood, however, undoubtedly views himself as …
Overcrowding at South Dakota Prison Impacts Family Visitation Program by A surge in female prisoners incarcerated on low-level drug charges led to the temporary shutdown of a program at the South Dakota Women’s Prison that helps prisoners maintain family ties and relationships. The Parent and Children Together (P.A.C.T.) program provides …
Benefits of Allowing Prisoners to Raise Babies Born in Prison by Matthew Clarke Programs that allow pregnant prisoners to keep their babies and raise them in prison appear to have benefits for both the babies and their mothers. According to a recent report, two-thirds of the over 200,000 women incarcerated …
Publication • March 1, 2016
ASPE Research Brief: Multi-site Family Study on Incarceration, Parenting and Partnering, ASPE, DHHS, 2016 ASPE RESEARCH BRIEF, OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR PLANNING AND EVALUATION, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES MARCH 2016 MULTI-SITE FAMILY STUDY ON INCARCERATION, PARENTING AND PARTNERING Change in Couple Relationships Before, During, and …
Publication • March 1, 2016
ASPE Research Brief - Multisite Family Study on Incarceration, Parenting and Partnering, ASPE, DHHS, 2016 ASPE RESEARCH BRIEF, OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR PLANNING AND EVALUATION, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES MARCH 2016 MULTI-SITE FAMILY STUDY ON INCARCERATION, PARENTING AND PARTNERING Change in Couple Relationships Before, During, …
Article • January 11, 2016
Mississippi First to Begin Conjugal Visits, Latest to End Them by David Reutter 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 …
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