Two women were killed during conjugal visits with their incarcerated partners inside Mule Creek State Prison months apart last year, sparking questions about safety, rehabilitation, and justice.

Insets: Stephanie Dowells and her husband David Brinson (KCRA/YouTube). Background: Mule Creek State Prison in Ione, Calif., where David Brinson allegedly strangled Stephanie Dowells (KCRA/YouTube).

Stephanie Dowells perished in November while having a conjugal visit with her spouse, David Brinson, a convicted murderer serving four consecutive life terms for a quadruple homicide in 1990.

A felon who killed four people choked a grandmother to death when she visited him for a conjugal visit behind bars. Stephanie Dowells, 62, went to Mule Creek State Prison to see her husband David ...