I do not think inmates should have conjugal visits at all,regardless if they are straight or gay.Prison inmates are scum regardless if they are straight or gay.They are in prison ,the only thing prison inmates deserve is bread, water and hard labor.This conjugal visit crap was probably the first thing that led to these scum getting getting additional things like weights,no mandatory hard labor,libraries,television, and so on.
I kind of agree.
Not with the "bread and water and hard labor" part, but with the conjugal visit part.
Having sex is not a human right, not a civil right.
Even some people who
aren't convicted criminals have a hard time getting it.
So why should convicted criminals (convicted of
serious crimes; conjugal visits aren't an option for guys doing two weeks or a month in county for possession of marijuana; they're for guys doing long sentences in federal or state prison)?
IMO, it only gives prisoners an opportunity to get things (drugs, possibly weapons) smuggled in from the outside. It also gives them an opportunity to impregnate women (as Ted Bundy did from prison) with children they are unable to help support.
I've long thought it was ridiculous that gay marriage was not legal, but that mass murderers and rapists had the opportunity to marry from prison.
Society holds this to be one of their "rights", a "right" so sacred and inviolate that we feel we cannot take it away, no matter how heinous their crimes.
To prevent them from marrying from prison would, society supposes, be an infringement on their most fundamental rights.
Some "sanctity". :roll:
If heterosexuals are allowed conjugal visits, then of course gays should be allowed conjugal visits too.
But I don't think heteros or gays should be allowed them, really.
They get to see their spouses plenty, under controlled conditions.
Nobody's saying they shouldn't be allowed visits with their families.
I just don't see why they really
need to be permitted to spend the night with their spouse in a conjugal visit trailer, under less-than-well-supervised conditions.
To me, getting laid ought to be one of the rights you lose for a while, when you commit a serious crime.
I don't consider it a fundamental right.
Perhaps that would serve as a deterrent to crime, and certainly abolishing "conjugal visits" for all prisoners would save the tax-payers some money, and possibly be in the interest of the public safety and the safety of guards and other inmates (because prisoners will have less opportunity to get dangerous items smuggled in).
I don't really think the opportunity to marry while in prison ought to be considered a fundamental, sacred "right", either.
It's a privilege that the government bestows and can take away, as evidenced by the fact that this opportunity is denied to homosexuals.
If gays are forbidden to marry, then why should serial killers like Bundy be allowed to?
