We are supporting the idea of conjugal visits in our State prisons to those who are incarcerated. The use of "family visits" would benefit the inmates, and their family's very much due to the much needed time for children to get to know their parents, parents to spend time with their children, husbands and wives to have time together and inmates to share time with elder family that may no longer be present once released from prison. Conjugal visits would allow for much stress to be relieved from inmates, therefore less violence in prisons would occur. Also conjugal visits may decrease homosexuality in the Pennsylvania Prison System. There are occasions where some family may not be able to visit due to distance, and family visits would allow for those members of family to stay with the inmate for a few hours or a few days, instead of traveling long distances for an hour or so visit.
In our state there is no bill allowing for a family visit in our prison systems. These types of visits would allow an inmate to share time with sons and daughter, mothers and fathers, wives and husband, and loved ones unmentioned. We believe that stress and frustration built up from having limited contact with family and loved ones causes havoc on an inmate, therefore causing violence to an inmate%u2019s self or others. In our system it is known that an inmate is encouraged to have visits from family and loved ones on a regular basis, why is it not encouraged for them to have time alone together, where husbands and wives can have time to be together and share love, where children can have needed time with their parents to grow a bond that is ever lasting, these are things that are needed for a human being to survive, things that cannot be shared in a visiting room. Our inmates need love and time, just like those not in prisons do, to recover, to be the best that they can be.
