{"id":195143,"date":"2026-02-26T18:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T18:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/195143\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T18:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T18:02:09","slug":"california-state-prison-sacramento-officials-investigating-the-death-of-an-incarcerated-person-as-a-homicide-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/195143\/","title":{"rendered":"California State Prison, Sacramento Officials Investigating the Death of an Incarcerated Person as a Homicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) officials are investigating the\u00a0Feb. 23,\u00a02026,\u00a0death of an incarcerated person\u00a0at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdcr.ca.gov\/facility-locator\/sac\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">California State Prison, Sacramento<\/a>\u00a0(CSP-SAC)\u00a0as a homicide.<\/p>\n<p>At approximately 9:15 p.m., staff observed incarcerated person John Cisneros unresponsive in his cell.<\/p>\n<p>Staff\u00a0immediately\u00a0responded,\u00a0initiating\u00a0life-saving measures\u00a0and activating 911.\u00a0Outside medical ambulance staff\u00a0pronounced\u00a0Cisneros\u00a0deceased\u00a0at 9:59\u00a0p.m.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-242375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Cisneros-AC4648-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"400\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Cisnero\u2019s cellmate, Irvin Sanchez, was detained and removed from the cell. He has been placed in restricted housing pending an investigation by SAC\u00a0Investigative Services Unit and the\u00a0Sacramento\u00a0County District Attorney\u2019s Office.\u00a0The Office of the Inspector General has been notified.<\/p>\n<p>Cisneros, 49, was most recently received from Los Angeles County on July 6, 2015, sentenced to five years for second-degree robbery. While incarcerated, he was sentenced by Los Angeles County on Oct. 16, 2017, to 28 years for penetration, oral copulation and attempted rape with force\/violence\/fear of immediate bodily injury.<\/p>\n<p>Sanchez, 34, was received from Los Angeles County on Feb. 27, 2013. He was sentenced to 18 years for attempted second-degree murder with enhancements of street gang act and use of a firearm, and one year, four months for concealing a firearm in a vehicle, to be served concurrently.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-242376\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1772128929_73_Sanchez-AN5960.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\"\/><\/p>\n<p>SAC opened in 1986 and houses more than 2,200 medium-, maximum- and high-security incarcerated persons. SAC offers academic classes and vocational programs and employs approximately 1,500 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) officials are investigating the\u00a0Feb. 23,\u00a02026,\u00a0death of an incarcerated person\u00a0at\u00a0California State Prison,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[7,339,134,7134,14483,7283,7656,2901,121,123,122,225],"class_list":{"0":"post-195143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-death","10":"tag-homicide","11":"tag-incarcerated","12":"tag-investigating","13":"tag-officials","14":"tag-person","15":"tag-prison","16":"tag-sacramento","17":"tag-sacramento-headlines","18":"tag-sacramento-news","19":"tag-state"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195143","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=195143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}