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bagatelle · 03-20-2011, 10:29 AM

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.

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?

Zeraph · 03-20-2011, 11:40 AM

Dude the justice system is messed up 6 ways to sunday. They serve shitty food so that the inmates pay money they get from family and friends at the cantina, kind of like a food store in prison that has better food than what they'd normally get. My friend got sent to prison without even seeing a judge first. And it was a first offense (not to mention he isn't guilty and they haven't a shred of evidence.

Craven Morehead · 03-20-2011, 12:35 PM

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Originally Posted by bagatelle

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?

If it weren't for bad behavior they wouldn't be in prison to begin with. IMO inmates forfeit many of their rights when they do the crime.

03-20-2011, 11:40 AM	#2 (permalink)
Zeraph Banned Location: The Cosmos	Dude the justice system is messed up 6 ways to sunday. They serve shitty food so that the inmates pay money they get from family and friends at the cantina, kind of like a food store in prison that has better food than what they'd normally get. My friend got sent to prison without even seeing a judge first. And it was a first offense (not to mention he isn't guilty and they haven't a shred of evidence.