Notes “Distressed Wife” of Ohio: “Women need more than just a kiss and hug every two weeks in three years.” - Laura McCllureīy signing up, you agree to our privacy policy and terms of use, and to receive messages from Mother Jones and our partners. But the spouses posting on sites like want more regular hookups. Ditto state death rows, although the wife of one condemned inmate reports that, back in the 1990s, San Quentin’s guards tended to look the other way while they snuck a quickie in the visitors’ bathroom. Federal prisons don’t allow conjugal visits. Outside of those states and three others-New York, Washington, and New Mexico-you won’t be gettin’ any. Mississippi prisoners can score 60 minutes in a “bedroom-like” facility during visiting hours, and last year California became the first to allow overnight visits by domestic partners, gay or straight. Michael Mechanicįailure to conjugateState-sanctioned prison sex makes people squirm, hence the official term for Big House hanky-panky: Some “family visits” reward well-behaved inmates and their better halves with up to three days in a condom-stocked trailer. They argued to me that prison rape was much more of a problem in the past, but with the onset of aids it’s just too risky.” When sexual violence does occur, Wolff says, the most likely victims include sex offenders, snitches, transsexuals, effeminate men, and…inmates with gambling debts. “They were actually angry with me at times for wasting their time, when they really wanted to focus on issues that are much more pertinent to their lives. “Many of the men would say, ‘You’ve been watching too much Oz,'” she recalls. Roughly 1 in 100 reported staff sexual misconduct beyond “touching only.” Wolff did a similar survey of 8,000 New Jersey prisoners in 2004. In a Bureau of Justice Statistics survey of nearly 24,000 inmates from 146 state and federal prisons, about 1 in 50 reported nonconsensual sex with a fellow inmate last year, with fewer than half of those incidents involving violence. “It can be horribly violent,” says Nancy Wolff, a Rutgers University professor who studies sexual assault, “but it’s not as big of a problem as people think.” In their first two weeks out of lockup, ex-cons are 13 times more likely to die than the average person, according to a recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine. The South Carolina Senate has considered legislation that would take up to 180 days off prisoners’ sentences if they donated an organ. In June 2006, the Institute of Medicine recommended an increase in the use of prisoners as biomedical test subjects after laboratory scientists complained of a shortage of rhesus monkeys. US prisons and jails house 3 times as many people with serious mental illness as US mental hospitals do. Less than 1% of prisons distribute condoms.Ģ/ 3 of gay, bisexual, and transgender inmates in California report being sexually assaulted.ĭisease rates in US prisons compared to general population: The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists says the practice puts “the health and lives of the women and unborn children at risk.” 48 states allow the shackling of female inmates while they are giving birth.
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