William Sims

A man, 80, died on February 10, 2024, at Louisiana State Penitentiary, in the custody of the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections. The department lists the death in its yearly death data, which does not give names, and gives the cause as a heart-related death.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections recorded the manner of death as natural.

Reported by: Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

Custody: Serving a sentence, held about 42 years.

Sources (3)

• Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, deaths in 2024 (data file) Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, death data files
• Incarceration Transparency, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, Louisiana Deaths Behind Bars Incarceration Transparency, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, deaths behind bars
• Incarceration Transparency, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, Louisiana Deaths Behind Bars, via UCLA Law Behind Bars UCLA Law Behind Bars Data Project, deaths in custody