Posted on 08/11/2008 6:52:08 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
ALBANY - Imagine: The man who killed John Lennon has been enjoying conjugal visits with his wife for at least 16 years.
Mark David Chapman has been locked up in the Attica Correctional Facility since gunning down the legendary former Beatle on Dec. 8, 1980.
Since at least 1992, Chapman, who this week is up for parole for a fifth time, has been a part of the prison's "family reunion" program, the Daily News has learned.
Under the program, Chapman gets to spend 44 hours straight with his wife in a special modular "private homelike setting," said Correctional Services Department spokesman Erik Kriss.
There are no cameras or guards inside the individual units, but they are surrounded by a fence, in addition to the Attica complex walls, Kriss said.
Gloria Hiroko Chapman, who was married to Chapman at the time he killed Lennon and still lives in Hawaii, visits once a year on average, sometimes more often, a source told The News.
She could not be reached for comment.
The goal of the program, Kriss said, is to "preserve and strengthen family ties that have been disrupted as a result of incarceration."
It is designed to "foster positive and responsible conduct" and "facilitate postrelease reintegration into the family and community, thereby reducing the likelihood of recidivism."
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why is this news? And who cares?
eeeewwwww..
When is Yoko going to be reunited with John?
Isn’t part of the punishment for doing wrong not getting to have family ties?
I thought the inmates killed that slime. I must be confusing him with a different slime.
It sounds like Attica is turning into another Club Gitmo.
Maybe she’s hideous and a mean bitchy shrew and it’s part of the punishment?
Nah, at the sentencing the judge said you are f***ed and it made it into the court record. An enterprising lawyer convinced prison officials that it meant something completely different, hence the visits.
I'm sorry, but this forum sure is not what it used to be.
I don’t care they say, I did not marry Mark David Chapman. ;o)
Disagree with you on this subject as crime and how felons are treated behind bars is of some worth. Sports threads however are another story. Those should be pulled the milisecond they appear.
Who would marry that jackass Chapman?
***”The goal of the program, Kriss said, is to “preserve and strengthen family ties that have been disrupted as a result of incarceration.”***
That warms my heart. It is a shame when criminals get punished.
Allow me to clear up your slime confusion.
You're thinking of Jeffrey Dahmer, the freak that ate people.
She was married to him BEFORE he killed John Lennon. I guess she stood by him under that “better or worse” part of the vow.
I'd say it's fair game, since the issue touches on liberal/conservative attitudes toward the penal system.
FR is a conservative forum, not just a "political forum". Besides there are thousands of other articles posted on here that are not just about politics or even conservatism and it has been that way for years. It spices up the place.
I was 10 when John was killed, however, I still think that Yoko hired him or someone else to have John killed.
I doubt sleeping with his wife is going to do that but shouldn't he have thought of that before he killed someone?!
You mean they're making him sleep with Yoko??? I'd rather get the rope!
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