From The Tribune staff reports
BESSEMER — The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office reports that an inmate serving a life sentence for a 2002 sexual abuse degree conviction has died in prison.
“The decedent was an inmate at William Donaldson Correctional Facility, servicing a life sentence for a 2002 conviction out of Jefferson County for sexual abuse first degree,” Deputy Coroner Bill Yates stated.
Latham was pronounced dead by the prison’s medical staff at 10:14 a.m. on Tuesday, December 7.