Marie and Noel Murray, an anarchist married couple imprisoned for a 1976 murder, lost a 1991 appeal for conjugal rights. In 2015, the Punjab and Haryana High Court held that the right of married convicts and jail inmates to have conjugal visits or artificial insemination for pregnancy was a fundamental right. Hong Kong does not permit conjugal visits.

In 2010, an inmate murdered his girlfriend and attempted suicide during a visit, leading to additional criticism of the lax security in German prisons. However, prisoners are searched before being allowed a visit. Those who are approved are allowed unsupervised visits so that prisoners can preserve intimate bonds with their partners. Germany allows prisoners and their spouses or partners to apply for conjugal visits. Visits last up to 72 hours and take place in mini-apartments consisting of two small rooms, a kitchen and a dining area. In France, inmates are permitted conjugal visits. The State Prison of East Jutland has apartments for couples, where inmates who have been sentenced to more than eight years in prison can have visitation for 47 hours per visit.

In Denmark, conjugal visits are permissible. Inmate's medical check and mental health check is required before such visit is permitted. In the Czech Republic, a prison warden has the authority to allow an inmate 'a visit without visual and auditory supervision of the employees of the Prison Service'. Prison staff have regular contact with the inmate and visitors during a visit. Food is provided by the institution but paid for by the inmates and visitors, who are also responsible for cleaning the unit after the visit. Eligible visitors, who may not themselves be prison inmates, are: spouse, or common-law partner of at least six months children parents foster parents siblings grandparents and 'persons with whom, in the opinion of the institutional head, the inmate has a close familial bond'. In Canada, all inmates in federal correctional facilities, with the exception of those on disciplinary restrictions or at risk for family violence, are permitted 'private family visits' of up to 72 hours' duration once every two months. In Brazil, male prisoners are eligible to be granted conjugal visits for both heterosexual and homosexual relationships, while women's conjugal visits are tightly regulated, if granted at all. Other jurisdictions, including Western Australia and Queensland, do not permit conjugal visits. In Australia, conjugal visits are permitted in the Australian Capital Territory and Victoria.

Supplies such as soap, condoms, lubricant, bed linens, and towels may be provided. They also provide an incentive for inmates to comply with the various day-to-day rules and regulations of the prison.Ĭonjugal visits usually take place in designated rooms or a structure provided for that purpose, such as a trailer or a small cabin. The generally recognized basis for permitting such visits in modern times is to preserve family bonds and increase the chances of success for a prisoner's eventual return to ordinary life after release from prison. The visitor is usually their legal spouse. A conjugal visit is a scheduled period in which an inmate of a prison or jail is permitted to spend several hours or days in private with a visitor.

Female prison conjugal visits