Corcoran SATF Inmate Death Being Investigated as Homicide

By KSEE News

January 23, 2012 Updated Jan 23, 2012 at 8:47 PM PDT

(Press Release) Officials at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) Substance Abuse Treatment Facility (SATF) are investigating an inmate death as a homicide.

43-year-old Jeffrey Lynn Goodwin was found on the institution’s recreation yard with an apparent head injury January 19th. Goodwin succumbed to his injuries at approximately 12:40 p.m. Sunday, January 22nd.

Officials from the prison and the Kings County District Attorney’s Office have named inmate 41-year-old Charles Morris as a suspect in the case. He has been placed in administrative segregation while the investigation continues.

Goodwin was received by CDCR on October 1, 2003, from Orange County and was serving a 14-year, eight-month sentence for first-degree robbery.

Morris was received by CDCR on February 8, 1993, from Los Angeles County and is serving a life-sentence for second-degree murder, first-degree attempted murder, possession of a firearm by an ex-felon, and second-degree robbery.

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