VIII SPECIFIC DISABILITIES CAUSED BY PRISON SENTENCE A prison sentence usually involves certain specific disabilities, such as (1) Loss of citizenship, (2) Loss of power of procreation through vasectomy, (3) Loss of marital rights, (4) Loss of presumption of innocence in subsequent prosecutions for crime, (5) Loss of rights to ordinary burial of corpse. 2. Loss of power of procreation (Vasectomy authorized): CONNECTICUT INDIANA NEW JERSEY When convict is determined to be incapable of producing offspring mentally, morally and physically sound. Skilled surgeons, in conjunction with chief physician, to examine the mental and physical condition of such inmates as are recommended by the institution physician and board of managers; and if this committee of experts deem procreation inadvisable and there is no probability of improvement in the mental condition it shall be lawful for the surgeons to perform the operation. Governor appoints one surgeon and one neurologist to act in conjunction with the commissioner of charities and corrections and to be known as "Board of Examiners of Feebleminded." This board determines whether or not operation shall be performed on feeble-minded, epileptics, rapists, certain criminals and other defectives. Laws of 1909, C. 209. Laws of 1907, C. 215. Acts of 1911, C. 190. |