Robert Menendez, a longtime senator from New Jersey, began serving an 11-year sentence in June following his conviction last year on federal bribery and corruption charges. In September, Nadine Menendez was sentenced to four and a half years in prison following her conviction at trial for aiding her husband.

So far, the U.S. Bureau of Prisons has denied several of Mr. Menendez’s written requests for his wife to visit and discuss his medical care in person, rather than in a recorded telephone call. The federal judge who sentenced them has not objected to such visits and neither have the prosecutors who tried the case.

“There are complicated decisions about the course of care going forward that [Ms. Menendez] doesn’t want to make by herself,” Sarah Krissoff said. “We all have problems that can’t be fixed, that we deal with every day,” she added. “This is a fixable problem, and they could fix it.”

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