Currently, only six U.S. states allow prison conjugal visits within their prison systems: California, Connecticut, Mississippi, New Mexico, New York and Washington. Originally, prison conjugal visits were used as an incentive to motivate working prisoners to be more productive. They were scheduled visits that allowed the prison inmate to spend one-on-one time with his or her legal spouse. Prisoners were lured by the idea of having the opportunity to have sexual contact with their spouses. Today, the main purpose of these...

Being in a relationship with someone you can't actually BE in a relationship with is a maddening process that rarely makes it through the bid if it's more than a few years. The inmate has a vivid imagination of what you are (might) doing while he's locked up (even if you haven't even been tempted). That makes him unjustly angry. You're picturing other women communicating with him, even visiting. The trust between you deteriorates becasue of the lack of real...

Getting charged with a new offense while on probation and enrolled in drug court is a serious situation, and the outcome depends heavily on the judge, the drug court program's rules, and how the prosecution decides to handle it. Drug court programs are structured around compliance. A new drug charge while enrolled is typically considered a program violation, and most drug courts have specific protocols for how violations are handled. In some cases the program allows for sanctions short of termination,...