The Origin of Conjugal Visits in America

How they combined with “Pig Laws” and “Convict Leasing” to perpetuate slavery.

By Mississippi Department of Corrections — http://www.mdoc.state.ms.us/images/Photo_Archive/043.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11549328

“Not a single leased convict ever lived long enough to serve a sentence of ten years or more.”

Conjugal visits occur when an inmate is allowed a private visit outside the…