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Aug 29, 2008 6:15 am US/Pacific

California Prisons Prepare For Gay Weddings

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ― Now that same-sex couples can get married in California, state prison officials are trying to figure out what that means for gay inmates.

State corrections spokeswoman Michele Kane says no prisoners have tried to arrange weddings with same-sex partners since the state Supreme Court granted same-sex couples the right to wed as of mid-June.

Still, she says corrections department lawyers are drafting guidelines to bring the state's 33 adult prisons into compliance with the court's ruling that same-sex couples must be treated the same as opposite-sex couples.

Kane says what they have determined so far is that would mean allowing gay inmates to marry someone on the outside, but not a fellow prisoner. That's the same rule that applies to straight inmates.

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