|
Jul 30, 2007
Quickie Link: Mexico City Prison System Allows Gay Conjugal Visits
|
|
 |
By vanrozenheim
|
(Mexico) - Mexico City's prison system has begun allowing gay conjugal visits, bowing to a recommendation by the country's National Human Rights Commission, the commission announced on Sunday. Mexico City's government has taken a series of stands in recent months on social issues like abortion, gay marriage and prostitution. "The Mexico City department of prisons and rehabilitation has allowed the first conjugal visit to an inmate with a sexual orientation other than heterosexual,'' the government-funded rights commission said in a news release. In many Mexican prisons, inmates are allowed to receive conjugal visits, and most do not require the visitor to be married to the inmate. Special rooms are set aside in many prisons so that inmates and visitors can be alone during such visits.
| Print this article  |
Advertisements
|
|
|
|
| |
