A Sacramento man imprisoned in Kern County died Tuesday at the prison’s hospital after he was found unresponsive in his cell, and California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officials are investigating the death as a homicide.
Malik Campbell, 26, had been held at California Correctional Institution in Tehachapi since being transferred from a state prison in San Diego County in October 2024.
Campbell was serving a 24-year sentence for voluntary manslaughter with an enhancement for committing a violent felony causing great bodily injury while in a street gang and carrying a loaded firearm in public. Prison staff found him about 4:30 p.m. Tuesday. He was taken to a prison medical unit where medics tried unsuccessfully to revive him, said corrections officials in a statement Thursday…