Investigators with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation are investigating the death of a 51-year-old male as a homicide, officials announced Monday.
Incarcerated at Mule Creek State Prison in Ione, Longeno Jones, who was most recently transferred to the facility from Los Angeles County in 2007, was found unresponsive in his cell on May 21 at around 5:15 p.m., which CDCR officials said in a news release was medication distribution time.
Prison staff, according to the release, immediately began life-saving measures on Jones and rushed him to the facility’s triage and treatment area where he was pronounced dead by paramedics at 5:45 p.m.
Jones’ cellmate, 54-year-old Jesse A. Ferdin, was taken from the cell and placed in restrictive housing pending the outcome of the investigation…