{"id":436781,"date":"2026-08-19T00:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T00:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/436781\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T00:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T00:34:08","slug":"inmate-killed-in-attack-at-california-state-prison-sacramento","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/436781\/","title":{"rendered":"Inmate killed in attack at California State Prison, Sacramento"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An inmate died Tuesday after being attacked by another inmate at California State Prison, Sacramento, in Folsom, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said staff saw Julio Caesar Madrigal, 36, attacking Danny Aguilar, 47, at about 9:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Staff ordered inmates in the area to get down, but Madrigal did not comply. Custody staff then fired two less-lethal rounds at Madrigal to stop the attack, the CDCR said. Prison officials noted that an improvised weapon was recovered at the scene.  <\/p>\n<p>A physician in the prison&#8217;s triage and treatment area pronounced Aguilar dead at about 10 a.m., the CDCR said.<\/p>\n<p>No staff members were injured.<\/p>\n<p>Madrigal has been placed in restricted housing while the investigation into Aguilar&#8217;s death continues.<\/p>\n<p>Facility C has been placed on modified program, and the Office of the Inspector General has been notified.<\/p>\n<p>Aguilar had been incarcerated at California State Prison, Sacramento, also known as New Folsom Prison, since being transferred from Los Angeles County on Oct. 26, 2006. He was serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole.<\/p>\n<p>Madrigal was transferred from Tulare County on June 9, 2022. He was sentenced to life with the possibility of parole for first-degree murder and was serving a second-strike sentence.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An inmate died Tuesday after being attacked by another inmate at California State Prison, Sacramento, in Folsom, officials&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[5607,3765,121,357,123,122],"class_list":["post-436781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-california-department-of-corrections-and-rehabilitation","tag-folsom-news","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\/436781","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=436781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}