Marriage to a prisoner is a difficult life-style choice. The divorce rate is 85% among couples where one spouse is incarcerated for one year or more.
Generally women who marry prisoners they really don't know tend to be shy, have low self-esteem, consider themselves to be outsiders, have been victims of abuse, and they hunger for an emotional relationship. Here are more reasons why women marry prisoners they met through the mail or through their work.
Who to contact and what you need.
Can a marriage survive a prison sentence?
Marriage is a complicated relationship. Being apart physically makes a marriage even more challenging.
A paper written by Judee Reeves in 1994 that mentions statistics and what to do.
A look at how prisoners' families often insulted, and made to feel as if they are second class citizens.
A site dedicated to the families of of those in prison.
Families with Loved Ones in Prison organization.
Promotes and encourages marriage and family life for incarcerated men and women.
Statistics and information about how much contact prisoners have with those they love. "If the inmate's marriage is intact upon admission, he also seems to maintain many other important relationships."
This pdf file on Prison Marriage and Divorce is Chapter 20 of Volume II. It includes general information about prisoner's rights to get married along with specific information for prisoners in New York, Washington, New Jersey, Kansas, Georgia, Florida, and California.
