{"id":430477,"date":"2026-08-12T06:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T06:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/430477\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T06:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T06:00:07","slug":"inmate-death-at-california-state-prison-sacramento-investigated-as-homicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/430477\/","title":{"rendered":"Inmate death at California State Prison, Sacramento investigated as homicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The death of an inmate at California State Prison, Sacramento, is being investigated as a homicide, officials said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said staff were alerted around 2 p.m. Tuesday to an unresponsive person inside a cell.<\/p>\n<p>Walter Badelle, 37, was found unconscious. Officials attempted lifesaving measures and called 911, CDCR said. An outside medical ambulance crew later pronounced Badelle dead at 2:51 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Badelle&#8217;s cellmate, 45-year-old Jonathan Blackwell, was handcuffed and removed from the cell. He has since been placed in restricted housing while the prison&#8217;s Investigative Services Unit and the Sacramento County District Attorney&#8217;s Office investigate the death.<\/p>\n<p>According to CDCR, Badelle was serving a 25-year sentence for second-degree robbery with enhancements under the Street Gang Act and use of a firearm.<\/p>\n<p>Last January, Badelle received an additional sentence of two years and eight months for manufacturing a deadly weapon by a prisoner, the CDCR said.<\/p>\n<p>Blackwell is serving a sentence of life without the possibility of parole for first-degree murder.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation into Badelle&#8217;s death remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The death of an inmate at California State Prison, Sacramento, is being investigated as a homicide, officials said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[17332,121,357,123,122],"class_list":["post-430477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-inmate-death","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-county","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430477","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=430477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}