James Baldwin IV
James Baldwin IV, 61, died on September 23, 2020, at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, where he had been held for many years. KTBS 3 reported that he had been ill for some time and that graveside services were pending at Bethel Cemetery in DeSoto Parish. The Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections lists his death in its annual death data as natural, with multiple system organ failure as the cause. Incarceration Transparency, which compiles records of deaths behind bars, gives the cause as multi-system organ failure from end-stage renal disease.
Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. The Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections lists the death as natural, from multiple system organ failure, and Incarceration Transparency records multi-system organ failure from end-stage renal disease.
Reported by: Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections (the agency that held him); Incarceration Transparency.