Are prisoners allowed to have conjugal or private family visits with spouses and/or children of their immediate family?
No! During the 1970’s the Nebraska Legislature approved such types of visits to promote family unity while a spouse or parent is incarcerated, but DCS administration have never approved of this plan. In several interviews in Nebraska papers, DCS Director Harold Clarke has made it clear that as long as he is DCS Director such visits will never be deemed needed or feasible for Nebraska prisoners. Female prisoners at the Women’s facility in York who are parents and who meet rigid institutional requirements, including such things as passing a parenting class, are allowed to have their children under a certain age visit with them overnight for two weekends a year, in a special part of the facility. Male prisoners who are parents are not allowed this same privilege.
