Officials at the Shasta County Jail announced that an inmate died while in custody at the Redding facility on Sunday.

Jail staff were conducting routine welfare checks when they discovered an unresponsive inmate in his cell, according to the Shasta County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies and medical staff gave life-saving measures, but the man died at the scene.

The man’s name is not being released pending notification of next of kin.

The sheriff’s Major Crimes Unit has taken over the investigation, with the assistance of the Redding Police Department’s Detective Division.

Inmate deaths at the facility were the subject of a report released in May by the Shasta County Grand Jury. That report said as of January 2025, there had been five in-custody deaths during a thirteen-month period in Shast

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