Back in 1986, Robert Chambers and Jennifer Levin left Dorrian's Red Hand on Manhattan's Upper East Side and went inside Central Park near the Met Museum to engage in al fresco sex. That part of the story is in line with normal Manhattan mating habits. What happened afterwards, however, deviated from the norm. Jennifer's lifeless corpse was found the next day; Robert's explanation was that he accidentally asphyxiated her after she injured his genitals during sex.
He went to jail without passing Go, and wound up serving his full sentence of 15 years because prison officials kept finding heroin in his jail cell. Recently, he was caught driving with a suspended license and the arresting officers found traces of heroin in his vehicle. By pleading guilty, as opposed to going to a jury trial, he's getting a three-month sentence. The so-called "Preppy Killer" is, by the gossipy way, engaged to a woman and living with her on East 57th Street. What The Bosh would like to know is why the prison system can't keep heroin away from its inmates. The system is barbaric and less than very helpful to society in any event in that it does not emphasize reforming the prisoners and setting them up to live productive post-prison lives. What is going on that officials can't keep as toxic a substance as heroin out of the prisons? If Martha Stewart can be monitored by electronic ankle bracelet outside a jail, why can't those entering the premises with heroin be detected? (By Scott Rose)
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