CORCORAN – California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) officials are investigating the July 28, 2024, death of an incarcerated person at California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility as a homicide.
At approximately 1:29 p.m., facility yard officers discovered Shawn G. Jackson Jr. unresponsive. Medical staff were immediately called for assistance, life-saving measures were taken, and Jackson was transported by ambulance to an outside medical facility. Jackson was pronounced deceased at 2:49 p.m. at the Adventist Medical Center in Hanford.
Upon investigation, it was determined that the incarcerated person, Jarvis Richerson, battered Jackson, rendering him unconscious. The Office of the Inspector General and the Office of Internal Affairs were notified. Kings County Coroner will determine Jackson’s official cause of death.
Jackson, 21, was received from Orange County on Sept. 20, 2023, to serve four years for pimping.
Richerson, 31, was received from Fresno County on July 21, 2015, and sentenced to two years and eight months for carrying a loaded firearm in public while active in a gang. On Jan. 22, 2016, he was released to parole supervision after serving his full sentence as defined by law. On Dec. 15, 2016, he was sentenced to serve four years for possessing/owning a firearm by a felon or addict, a second-strike offense. He was released to Post-Release Community Supervision with the Fresno County Probation Dept. on Jan. 22, 2019, after serving his full sentence as defined by law. On Dec. 18. In 2023, he was sentenced to 8 years for rape with force/violence, inflicting corporal injury, and assault with a firearm.
The primary mission of the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison at Corcoran (SATF/CSP) is to protect the public by ensuring those incarcerated persons who are remanded to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) remain in custody until they are scheduled to be released. SATF houses minimum, medium, high, and maximum-security male incarcerated persons. The institution opened in 1997, housing 5483 incarcerated people and employs 1991 staff.
