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| Inmate Ashes Scattered |
| By The Record Online |
| Published: 01/30/2006 |
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Craig Bryan leaned into a soft January wind from the port side of a sailboat, cradling in his hands a bag holding the cremated remains of a 90-year-old California prison inmate. The Fairfield funeral director pushed toward the Golden Gate Bridge recently, aboard the 36-foot-long Spindrift. From a plastic bag, he poured the man's ashes and pulverized bones into the Bay. "The water's where we all came from and where we return to," Bryan said. "It sure is a sailor's perspective." The gray plume of ash trailed the boat, stirred in the wake and then sank into the cold, dark water. On this voyage, Bryan scattered these remains and those of 10 others who died in prison. He declined to reveal their names. Each one lived his last days at the California Medical Facility, a prison hospital in Vacaville. One of them died at age 34. Others were old men. None of the prisoners' relatives wished to scatter the remains. Bryan manages his family business, Bryan-Braker Funeral Home, which contracts with the state to handle dead inmates from nearby prisons. Sometimes, nobody claims the dead convicts, Bryan said. He sometimes buries the remains at cemeteries. This January trip was the third time Bryan had scattered prisoners' remains from a boat. |
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