CDCR: Man, 21, sentenced for pimping in O.C. beaten to death at substance abuse treatment facility
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is investigating the death of an incarcerated man who was sentenced for pimping in Orange County as a homicide.
According to a CDCR release, officers patrolling the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility, Corcoran’s facility yard discovered an unresponsive man just before 1:30 p.m. Sunday and immediately called for medical assistance.
The man – identified as Shawn G. Jackson Jr. – was transported to an outside medical center, where he was pronounced dead at 2:49 p.m., CDCR said.
Jackson, 21, was received from Orange County on Sept. 20, 2023, to serve four years for pimping.
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An investigation determined that another incarcerated man “battered Jackson Jr., rendering him unconscious,” corrections department officials said.
The assailant was identified as 31-year-old Jarvis Richerson, who, according to CDCR, has been in and out of prison several times on multiple charges; he is currently serving eight years for rape with force/violence, inflicting corporal injury and assault with a firearm.
Received from Fresno County in July 2015, Richerson was originally sentenced to two years and eight months for carrying a loaded firearm in public while active in a gang. He was released on parole in January 2016 but less than a year later, he was sentenced to serve four more years for being a felon in possession of a firearm, a second-strike offense.
After serving that sentence, he was released under community supervision from the Fresno County Probation Department in 2019, CDCR stated.
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The California Inspector General’s Office and the CDCR’s Office of Internal Affairs were notified of Jackson’s death and are investigating, officials said. The Kings County Coroner has not yet determined his official cause of death.
According to CDCR, the primary mission of California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility, Corcoran is to protect the public by ensuring incarcerated persons who are remanded to CDCR remain in custody until they are scheduled to be released.
SATF Corcoran, which opened in 1997, houses 5,483 minimum, medium, high and maximum-security incarcerated male inmates and employs 1,991 staff.
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