<P> In Spain, prisoners are allowed conjugal visits every four to eight weeks . They are held in private rooms and can last up to three hours . Couples are provided with condoms, shower facilities, and clean towels . </P> <P> Since April 2013, Turkish General Directorate of Prisons and Detention Houses offers conjugal visits as a "reward" to the well - behaved prisoners . </P> <P> Neither the English, Welsh, Scottish, nor Northern Irish prison systems allow conjugal visits . However, home visits, with a greater emphasis on building other links with the outside world to which the prisoner will be returned, are allowed . These home visits are usually only granted to prisoners who have a few weeks to a few months remaining of a long sentence . Furthermore, home visits are more likely to be granted if the prisoner is deemed to have a low risk of absconding i.e. prisoners being held in open prisons have a better chance of being granted home visits than prisoner being held in closed conditions . </P> <P> In Lyons v. Gilligan (1974), the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio held that the prisoners have no constitutional right to conjugal visits with their spouses during sentences . </P>

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