{"id":521144,"date":"2026-11-07T00:40:20","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T00:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/521144\/"},"modified":"2026-11-07T00:40:20","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T00:40:20","slug":"inmates-death-at-folsom-prison-ruled-a-homicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/521144\/","title":{"rendered":"Inmate&#8217;s death at Folsom prison ruled a homicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The death of an inmate at California State Prison, Sacramento, is being investigated as a homicide, officials said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said Dennis Romero, 40, was declared dead by paramedics in the prison&#8217;s triage area after being found unresponsive in his cell shortly before 3 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/dennis-romero-cdcr.png#.png\" alt=\"dennis-romero-cdcr.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Booking photo of Dennis Romero<\/p>\n<p>                California Department of Corrections and Rehabiitation<\/p>\n<p>According to the CDCR, 23-year-old Jacob Forbes, Romero&#8217;s cellmate, was placed into restrictive housing.<\/p>\n<p>Romero had been serving a life sentence with the possibility of parole for second-degree murder. He was first received into the state prison system in 1996 and later received additional sentences for possessing or manufacturing a weapon while incarcerated and two separate assaults on correctional officers involving gassing. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Forbes was received into the state prison system in April 2024. He is serving a three-year, four-month sentence for second-degree robbery, second-degree burglary and attempted second-degree robbery.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/jacob-d-forbes-cdcr.png#.png\" alt=\"jacob-d-forbes-cdcr.png \" height=\"773\" width=\"620\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Booking photo of Jacob Forbes<\/p>\n<p>                California Department of Corrections and Rehabiitation<\/p>\n<p>The CDCR said the prison&#8217;s investigative services unit and the Sacramento County District Attorney&#8217;s Office are investigating. The Office of the Inspector General has also been notified, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>California State Prison, Sacramento, also known as New Folsom Prison, is located on the south side of Folsom Lake in the city of Folsom.<\/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":521145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[3765,17332,121,123,122],"class_list":["post-521144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-folsom-news","tag-inmate-death","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521144","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=521144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}