Texas Prison Support - A resource for friends and families of inmates in TDCJ
General Category => General Information => Topic started by: sunrayswench on November 19, 2014, 12:04:28 pm
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Full details, such as they are, here on the Grits for Breakfast blog:
http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/tdcj-plans-to-let-inmate-marriages.html (http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/tdcj-plans-to-let-inmate-marriages.html)
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Good news; and a lot sooner than I expected. I didn't know TDCJ could move that fast in a sensible direction ;)
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I think they were advised that they were on dodgy legal ground and would need to do something to avert a class action suit being brought that they would almost certainly lose.
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TDCJ inmates can now apply to marry their fiance or fiancee face to face within the prison:
http://tdcj.state.tx.us/documents/policy/AD0342.pdf (http://tdcj.state.tx.us/documents/policy/AD0342.pdf)