承前*1
Simon Jenkins*2 “If Charles Manson has found love, surely that’s a good thing?” http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/18/charles-manson-love-marry-killer
チャールズ・マンソンと26歳の女性との結婚が許可されたが、第二級殺人罪で服役中の73歳のフィル・スペクター*3も結婚している*4。何故若い女性が獄中の凶悪犯に惹かれてしまうのかに関しては様々な議論（言説）があるが、獄中結婚が服役者にとってどのような意義を有するのかということはあまり語られていないという。Jenkins氏によれば、（修復的司法の観点から）は獄中結婚は服役者による過去の罪の認識に資するという;
What is rarely discussed is that the relationship might be something other than merely cynical. Prison sentences in Britain and America have lengthened in response to public (or media) hysteria. To be incarcerated “for life” is a living hell, society’s proxy for capital punishment. Conditions for parole or early release are related to atonement for the past and likely future violence. The length of sentences is an uncivilised mess.Yet the most certain aid to rehabilitation is release into a loving and stable relationship. Since such things are impossible for the state to arrange, they are downplayed by penologists. “Love behind bars” may need to be treated with scepticism. But its restorative capacity should not be dismissed. Emotional comfort applies to all ages and conditions.
Manson will never be let out. Nothing can make amends for what he did. But love, however bizarre, cannot be dismissed out of hand if it might make the remainder of his existence more humane and perhaps lead him to a sort of understanding of what he did to his victims half a century ago.
*1:http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20141118/1416327039
*2:See also http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20130218/1361159143 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20141116/1416157089
*3:http://philspector.com/ See eg. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Spector http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%9A%E3%82%AF%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC
*4:Jenkins氏は「最近」「獄中で」結婚したと書いているが、スペクターがRachelle Shortと結婚したのは2006年であるが、今から８年前というのは英語のrecentlyの通常の範囲なのだろうか。また、その後の一時期、スペクターは保釈されている。See eg. Caroline Graham “I won't rest until Phil comes home: Spector's wife opens the doors of bizarre house where starlet was murdered” http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1211438/As-Phil-Spector-serves-life-sentence-murder-wife-Rachelle-remains-convinced-innocence.html Sheri Stritof “Phil Spector's Third Wife -- Rachelle Short (2006-present)” http://marriage.about.com/od/infamous/ss/Marriages-Of-Phil-Spector_4.htm LINDA DEUTSCH “Inside Phil & Rachelle Spector's Unusual Marriage” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/29/inside-phil-rachelle-spec_n_663527.html Guy Adams “Inside story: The weird world of Mr & Mrs Phil Spector” http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/inside-story-the-weird-world-of-mr--mrs-phil-spector-2055932.html なお、彼女にはオフィシャル・サイトがある。http://www.rachellespector.com/
