In the harsh world of concrete walls and iron bars, an unexpected bloom of hope persists: the right to marry. Across the United States, many states recognize that incarceration does not extinguish the ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A measure making it easier for inmates to get married is moving through the Missouri Legislature. The legislation would create an inmate exception to a Missouri law that ...

CONWAY, S.C. (WIS) - A West Columbia woman was charged on Wednesday with forging an inmate’s signature on her marriage license. According to an affidavit from the South Carolina Law Enforcement ...

A registrar in Burlington County properly denied a marriage license to a federal prison inmate because he and his husband-to-be are unable to appear in person to apply, a New Jersey appeals court ...

George Hyatte — the Tennessee felon who escaped Tuesday in what authorities described as a "Bonnie-and-Clyde-style shootout" outside a Tennessee courthouse — has used everything from his fists to a ...

All marriages inside Oklahoma prisons are now on hold, and a local gay rights group is now fighting to bring back marriages for all couples to the Oklahoma Department of Corrections. The Department of ...

Several women in Iowa have reported difficulties getting married to their incarcerated fiancés, raising questions about whether Iowa prisons are upholding inmates' constitutional right to marry.