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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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