Officials look into death of Stephanie Brinson, who’s second person in a year to die during family visit at Ione facility

Summary

Stephanie Diane Dowells, 62, was strangled during an overnight visit with her husband, David Brinson, at Mule Creek state prison in California.

Brinson, serving life without parole for four murders, claimed Dowells passed out, but authorities ruled her death a homicide.

This marks the second strangulation death during a family visit at the prison in a year; Tania Thomas was killed in July 2024 while visiting inmate Anthony Curry. Investigations are ongoing.

California is one of four states allowing family visits to maintain positive relationships.

    • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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      14 days ago

      So… we go all the way back to my previous point where I said you think it’s okay to imprison people for life even with the possibility that they are innocent.

      I said to keep the prisons open until we replace them. That necessarily means we aren’t imprisoning people for life, because the prisons will close. We just hold them for the length of time it takes to replace the prisons with schools and hospitals.

      Get it?

      Also I don’t know where you got the idea that I actually support life imprisonment? I only said it’s better than the death penalty.

      I keep repeating myself because you seem to be willfully misunderstanding me over and over.

        • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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          14 days ago

          All the schools and hospitals in the world aren’t going to stop people from harming each other. Get it?

          Reeducation and rehabilitation you stupid shitbag, why is this so hard for you to understand?

          Talking to you is self harm.