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Now that same-sex couples can get married in California, state prison officials are trying to figure out what that means for gay inmates.
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An unidentified inmate at Campbell pre-release facility changes the channel as he joins others watching television in the day room Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2008, in Columbia, S.C. The big switch to digital TV has prisons across the county scrambling to keep...
