Calif. gay, lbian mat get njugal viss

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• GAYS AND LBIANS ALLOWED NJUGAL VISS PRISONS
• CALIFORNIA ALLOWS GAY NJUGAL VISS PRISONS
• CALIF. GAY, LBIAN MAT GET NJUGAL VISS
• GAY NJUGAL VISS PRISONS

GAYS AND LBIANS ALLOWED NJUGAL VISS PRISONS

Many stat did not beg to jo Mississippi offerg njugal viss until much later the century, when nservative ernors like California's Ronald Reagan would terme 1968 that allowg some married men to have sex wh their wiv was the bt way to rce "stanc of homosexualy" prisons. ALBANY - State prison officials are allowg njugal viss for gay mat volved same-sex marriag or civil regulatn chang will also allow gay prisoners to take leave om their cell when their loved one is termally ill. Cuomo's office a bid to w approval of gay marriage before the end of the state's legislative ssn has said legalizg gay marriage is a prry for his admistratn.

A recent Qunipiac Poll showed 56% of New Yorkers support legalizg gay marriag. 2007-06-01 04:00:00 PDT Sacramento -- California's prison system is changg s regulatns to allow njugal viss for gay and lbian mat rponse to a legal threat and a 2003 law that gave domtic partners many of the same rights as married a plat om an mate a Vaville prison and prsure om the Amerin Civil Liberti Unn, the state Department of Correctns and Rehabilatn has begun to allow overnight viss for mat wh registered domtic partners and is to adopt permanent regulatns later this year.

CALIFORNIA ALLOWS GAY NJUGAL VISS PRISONS

The change will allow gay and lbian mat the same rights as other mat, who are eligible to spend up to three days wh fay members livg areas -- ually trailers -- on prison grounds. A gay-rights advote praised the partment's move and said the rights of gay and lbian mat were nsired durg the creatn of the law 2003 unr AB205. AdvertisementArticle ntu below this adGroups that oppose gay marriage and domtic partnerships were upset wh the new regulatns.

SAN FRANCISCO (Rters) - California has cid to sanctn gay sex wh prison walls for the first time by allowg mat to have njugal viss wh registered same-sex domtic partners, officials said on change the l follows mands by Vernon Foeller, 40, a former club disc jockey who repeatedly sought permissnfor a vis om his domtic partner. He had the state’s first gay njugal vis December, even though the formal change the le is still pendg. ”Gay sex outsi of njugal viss is still banned California prisons and mat who marry prison or same-sex upl prison are eligible for the the program, an mate is allowed to live a small apartment or trailer wh the prison grounds for up to 72 hours wh a spoe or partner or immediate fay members.

CALIF. GAY, LBIAN MAT GET NJUGAL VISS

1This is an tertg time the changg legal landspe relatg to gay and lbian prisoners, but public and scholarly attentn is lackg. Rights of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenred prisoners are often nceived of eher long-tablished ncerns relatg to guards’ discrimatn or newly popular attentn to the special needs of transgenred prisoners. Although the are important issu, such a foc n lead advot and urts to overlook the evolvg standards (or stagnant polici, spe apparent potential for progrs) regardg the rights of gay and lbian prisoners.

Visatn and other rights are vastly different for gay and lbian prisoners unls the progrs broar society this regard is brought to bear upon the prison system.

GAY NJUGAL VISS PRISONS

Fally, the article touch upon the ntroversial topic of homosexual protective ctody, and not that judicial unwillgns to require standards has left the issue stagnated and ill-explored. Spoal Visatn RightsIn most regards, visatn polici vary too greatly and are too pennt upon dividualized factors relatg to each prisoner to be subject to easy tegorizatn or analysis based on the impact on gay and lbian prisoners.

3 Three of the jurisdictns regnize gay marriage to some extent, and a fourth regniz domtic partnerships. 8 On the other extreme, Mississippi, by statute and through a provisn of s state nstutn, prohibs gay marriage and exprsly bars regnn of gay marriag validly performed elsewhere.

9 In addn to the newly announced regnn of gay marriage (which will be explored a moment), California’s Domtic Partner Rights and Rponsibili Act of 2003 is extremely broad, providg that “Registered domtic partners shall have the same rights, protectns, and benefs, and shall be subject to the same rponsibili, obligatns, and duti unr law, whether they rive om statut, admistrative regulatns, urt l, ernment polici, mon law, or any other provisns or sourc of law, as are granted to and imposed upon spo. 12 The domtic partner statute and the CDCR’s terpretatn rema extremely important, however, bee some gay and lbian upl may choose to rema registered domtic partners, preferrg that to marriage for any number of personal reasons.