SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Now that same-sex couples can get married
in California, state prison officials are trying to figure out what
that means for gay inmates.
State corrections spokeswoman Michele Kane says no prisoners
have tried to arrange weddings with same-sex partners since the
state Supreme Court granted same-sex couples the right to wed as of
mid-June.
Still, she says corrections department lawyers are drafting
guidelines to bring the state’s 33 adult prisons into compliance
with the court’s ruling that same-sex couples must be treated the
same as opposite-sex couples.
Kane says what they have determined so far is that would mean
allowing gay inmates to marry someone on the outside, but not a
fellow prisoner. That’s the same rule that applies to straight
inmates.
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