Sexual offenses between inmates occur less often in states that allow conjugal visitation
Wednesday, March 21, 2012 - 10:31
in Health & Medicine
Could widespread conjugal visitation reduce sexual offending in prisons? It's a possibility, according to Stewart D'Alessio and his team from Florida International University in the US. Their work shows that in states where conjugal visits are permitted, there are significantly fewer instances of reported rape and other sexual offenses in their prisons. The study is published online in Springer's American Journal of Criminal Justice.