A visit to a prisoner, by the spouse of the prisoner, especially for sexual relations.
Example sentencesExamples
The bills would give lesbian and gay couples rights equal to heterosexuals in areas such as pensions, tax treatment, and conjugal visits in prison.
The film uncovers a world where prisoners are largely self-governing; conjugal visits are permitted, and the cells are as vivid and colourful as the prisoners they confine.
One time we got to spend one Christmas on a conjugal visit before they took conjugal visits away from lifers.
Yes, our wives would visit us, but not in the sense of a conjugal visit, where you can have physical contact with them.
Prisoners, even life prisoners with no privileges of conjugal visits, have been held to have a constitutional right to marry.
Definition of conjugal visit in US English:
conjugal visit
noun
Law
A visit to a prisoner, by the spouse of the prisoner, especially for sexual relations.
Example sentencesExamples
Yes, our wives would visit us, but not in the sense of a conjugal visit, where you can have physical contact with them.
The film uncovers a world where prisoners are largely self-governing; conjugal visits are permitted, and the cells are as vivid and colourful as the prisoners they confine.
Prisoners, even life prisoners with no privileges of conjugal visits, have been held to have a constitutional right to marry.
The bills would give lesbian and gay couples rights equal to heterosexuals in areas such as pensions, tax treatment, and conjugal visits in prison.
One time we got to spend one Christmas on a conjugal visit before they took conjugal visits away from lifers.