Submitted on Monday 22nd July 2019
Published on Friday 13th September 2019
Current status: Closed
Closed: Wednesday 6th November 2019
Signatures: 13
Introduce conjugal visits to our prisons!
Approximately 80,000 people in the UK have a partner incarcerated in a British jail. With a limited number of visits per month, typically lasting for a maximum of 1 hour each, prison can have an almost instantaneously damaging effect on a marriage or relationship.
In many countries across Europe conjugal visits operate SUCCESSFULLY. However, in the U.K it is not permitted. An advantage of conjugal visits is that prisoners tend to behave for fear of losing their right to a visit. But the biggest advantage is families suffer somewhat less than they currently do.
NORWAY ALLOWS CONJUGAL VISITS AND IT HAS THE LOWEST RE-OFFENDING RATE CURRENTLY STANDING AT 20%. IN COMPARISON, MORE THAN 60% OF BRITISH PRISONERS RELEASED AFTER SHORT SENTENCES RE-OFFEND WITHIN A YEAR OF BEING RELEASED!
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