December 31, 2013
Mississippi Department of Corrections Commissioner Christopher Epps recently announced his agency would eliminate Mississippi’s conjugal visit program. Launched in the early 1900s, Mississippi’s was the first and longest-running conjugal-visit program in the nation.
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State Prisons End Conjugal Visits
Although its precise origins are unclear, Parchman was the first penal institution in the U.S. to permit conjugal visits.
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