California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation<\/a>, the correctional officers were escorting an inmate from a cell around 7 p.m. when they were attacked by an improvised weapon. The inmate was being escorted as prison staff were set to conduct a cell search.<\/p>\nPrison staff used physical force and chemical agents to stop the attack. Following the incident, officials said an improvised weapon was found at the scene.<\/p>\n
The guards were taken to the prison’s triage and treatment area before taken to an outside medical facility. CDCR officials said both officers are in “fair” condition as of Sunday.<\/p>\n
The inmate, identified as 48-year-old Jason Brannigan, was taken into restricted housing pending investigation, officials said.<\/p>\n
According to correctional records, Brannigan is from Sacramento County and has been imprisoned since at least March 2011. Brannigan is serving a 17-year, 8-month sentence after being convicted of multiple offenses, including corporal injury to a spouse and criminal threats.<\/p>\n
While in prison, officials said Brannigan was sentenced in 2022 to four years for possession \/ manufacture of a deadly weapon.<\/p>\n
Officials said the case will be referred to the Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office for prosecution.<\/p>\n
As of Sunday afternoon, the prison located in Folsom is on “modified programming” to complete a 24-hour threat assessment, officials said. Peer support and other support services are being offered to prison employees.<\/p>\n
According to CDCR, the prison houses more than 2,200 medium-, maximum- and high-security inmates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two correctional officers at California State Prison, Sacramento are hospitalized and an attempted murder investigation has been launched…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2598,5526,7,5607,9,8,3765,24968,2901,121],"class_list":["post-35070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-assault","tag-attempted-murder","tag-california","tag-california-department-of-corrections-and-rehabilitation","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-folsom-news","tag-new-folsom-prison","tag-prison","tag-sacramento"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35070","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=35070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}