By Brooke Adams
The Salt Lake Tribune
SALT LAKE CITY — For the first time in its history, the Utah Department of Corrections will allow prison inmates to converse with visitors in languages other than English.
The policy change is among significant revisions to the prison’s general visitation policy set to take effect on August 1, modifications largely aimed at getting rid of rules based on outdated and overly broad gender stereotypes.
One change will allow individuals to be on more than one inmate’s approved visitation list, a rule that required, for example, parents who had two children in prison to seek special approval to visit both. Visitors who are non-immediate family members and want to visit an inmate of the opposite sex will no longer have to be accompanied by their spouse, the inmate’s spouse or the inmate’s parents — a requirement that often proved a logistical hardship.
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