{"id":193614,"date":"2026-02-25T20:50:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T20:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/193614\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T20:50:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T20:50:32","slug":"sacramento-prison-officials-investigate-death-of-inmate-from-los-angeles-as-homicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/193614\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento prison officials investigate death of inmate from Los Angeles as homicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An investigation is underway at a Northern California prison after a man died earlier this week, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Officials at the California State Prison, Sacramento \u2014 located in Folsom \u2014 found 49-year-old John Cisneros unresponsive in his cell on Monday around 9:15 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Despite life-saving measures, officials said Cisneros was pronounced dead about 45 minutes later. The extent of his injuries was not released.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cisnero&#8217;s cellmate, 34-year-old Irvin Sanchez, was detained and placed into restricted housing pending an investigation by the investigative services unit and Sacramento County District Attorney&#8217;s Office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officials said Cinsero was received from Los Angeles County in July 2015 to serve a five-year sentence for second-degree robbery. He was later sentenced in October 2017 to 28 years for penetration, oral copulation and attempted rape with force\/violence\/fear of immediate bodily injury.<\/p>\n<p>Sanchez was received from Los Angeles County in February 2013 to serve an 18-year sentence for attempted second-degree murder with a street gang enhancement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An investigation is underway at a Northern California prison after a man died earlier this week, officials said.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[31631,3765,47,24968,121,357,123,122],"class_list":{"0":"post-193614","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-california-state-prison-sacramento","9":"tag-folsom-news","10":"tag-los-angeles","11":"tag-new-folsom-prison","12":"tag-sacramento","13":"tag-sacramento-county","14":"tag-sacramento-headlines","15":"tag-sacramento-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}