Ban on EFUs and Artificial Insemination for CA Lifers Upheld by California denies conjugal visits to persons sentenced to life without parole or to life without a parole date established by the parole board. The plaintiff is serving so much time that no parole date appears likely. The court declines …

No Right to Artificial Insemination by The court of appeals for the Eighth circuit held that a BOP prisoner in Missouri had no right to artificially inseminate his wife, assuming prisoners retain a right to procreate after incarceration. One judge dissented and would have ruled in the prisoner's favor. The …

New Jersey Prisoner Denied Right to Artificially Inseminate Wife by The Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division, held that a state prisoner had no constitutionally protected right to artificially inseminate his wife. Robert G. Percy, a 45-year-old prisoner sentenced in 1985 to 30 years to life for homicide, sought …

BOP Guards Smuggle Sperm for Mobsters by Gary Hunter BOP Guards Smuggle Sperm For Mobsters by Gary Hunter On March 1, 2002, the U.S. District court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania denied the motion of a mobster's wife requesting the return of her incarcerated husband's sperm. Circumstances leading to …

No Right to Artificial Insemination by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that the right to procreate is fundamentally inconsistent with incarceration, thereby upholding a California state prison policy disallowing a prisoner from sending a sperm specimen to his …

BOP Guards Smuggle Sperm by In October, 2000, federal prison guards Troy Kemmerer and Todd Swineford were arrested and indicted for accepting money to help smuggle cryogenic sperm kits to a New York City fertility clinic. The investigation began over two years ago when convicted hit man Kevin Granato sat …