The highly publicized escape of two murderers from a New York prison came to an end this week as Richard Matt was shot and killed and David Sweat was shot and captured. Sweat has been telling investigators about the escape and has apparently revealed quite a few interesting details. CNN has the latest here. For whatever reason, even our local media paid much less attention to the escape of a murderer from a North Carolina prison last weekend. Like the incident in New York, North Carolina’s escape involved romance between an inmate and a female guard, as WNCN reports here. The escapee has been recaptured. In other news: Same-sex marriage in jails and prisons? That’s the question that correctional facilities are pondering the wake of the Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage ruling last week. Sentencing Law & Policy sets the table here. Of course, in jurisdictions that already allowed such unions, this issue has arisen before. Slate discusses the federal experience here. This story discusses California’s rules (in brief, inmates may marry non-incarcerated same-sex partners, but not other inmates). This one chronicles the first same-sex marriage between inmates in Hawai’i (“The warden say[s] they will receive no special treatment as a married couple. Officials say they will not be housed together and both state and federal law prohibits inmates from engaging in any sexual acts.”). Across the pond, two inmates married in a UK prison earlier this year. The Guardian reports that one murdered a man he met through a gay chat [...]
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