San Quentin resident Jimmy Chapman was remembered as a friend and a good man.
Chapman worked in Prison Industry (PIA) for over nine years. Douglas Collier, who lived with Chapman during the last three months of his illness.
“He wasn’t a veteran or part of the church, but he was a human being…he was a good man,” Collier said.
Collier added that the administration talks about compassionate release but that did not happen for Chapman.
“I talked to Jimmy and he said, ‘Don’t let me die in here,’” Collier said. Friends for 20 years they both shared a cell at San Quentin in previous years
“I’ve got Jimmy’s shoes on right now. Sometimes I don’t know why I’ve got them on,” said Collier. “I do it because it’s all I’ve got to remember him by.”
Jimmy Chapman was born May 31, 1947 and passed Feb. 11, 2011.