This question came to my mind, when I was reading about Mark Chapman, who killed John Lennon. He has been imprisoned since 1981.
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Chapman is on the Family Reunion Program, and is allowed one conjugal visit a year with his wife. The program allows him to spend up to 42 hours alone with his wife in a specially built prison home. He also gets occasional visits from his sister, clerics, and few friends.
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A conjugal visit is a scheduled extended visit during which an inmate of a prison is permitted to spend several hours or days in private, usually with a legal spouse. While the parties may engage in sexual intercourse, the generally recognized basis for permitting such a visit in modern times is to preserve family bonds and increase the chances of success for a prisoner's eventual return to life outside prison. Additionally, the incentive of conjugal visits means that inmates are strongly motivated to comply with the various day-to-day rules and regulations of the prison. As a result, inmates consciously avoid any infringement which might disqualify them from having a conjugal visit.
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Firstly, is once a year too seldom? Does the frequency of allowed visits depend on the crime, the prisoner did?
Secondly, how do you feel about part that says bad behaviour might disqualify prisoner from having this visit? Can this be interpreted as extortion? Should inmates have subjective right to these visits?