A 38-year-old man died in a Tucson hospital on Thursday, five days after he attempted suicide at the Pima County Jail, officials said.

Pima County Sheriff’s Department spokeswoman Gordon Downing said Louis A. Williams was pronounced dead around 8:45 a.m. Thursday.

Downing said that around 11:40 am on Saturday, May 20, prison guards on patrol found Williams attempting to commit suicide. Prison officers “immediately entered the cell”, began life-saving procedures, and awaited rescue by medical staff and the Tucson Fire Department. A spokeswoman said Williams was taken to hospital in critical condition.

Detectives with the Sheriff’s Department Criminal Investigation Division have launched an investigation, but “nothing has been revealed or evidence of anything suspicious,” he said.

Williams was in prison after his probation was revoked and was charged with “illegal escape from a law enforcement vehicle,” according to court records. He was convicted of stealing a car in January 2022, according to court records.

Since 2017, 49 people have died in custody at the Pima County Jail, according to a memo sent to the county board of overseers in December. Four other inmates have died since the memo was released, including Williams.

Yunan Mohammad Atrib Tutu, 26, died on January 10. An autopsy revealed that he had hyponatremia (a condition in which blood sodium levels are greatly reduced), and toxicology tests showed that the prescribed antipsychotic dose was “below the reference level.” It turned out to be below. Treatment coverage,” said the Pima County Coroner’s Office.

A few weeks later, 61-year-old Jose Octavio Flores died. Flores was admitted to a medical unit after being involved in a shooting at a Tucson sports bar on December 18. Flores was kicked out of the bar for sabotage, but then returned with a rifle and was shot dead by another customer. . Flores was treated at Banner University Medical Center until January 16, after which he was held in prison, where he died five days later, on January 23.

Another man died in the early hours of May 21, but the PCSD has not released his identity while detectives have located and called his next of kin.

Sheriff Chris Nanos said last year that overcrowding and understaffing had put his facility in a “full-blown crisis” at “life-threatening levels.”

The Pima County Coroner has revealed that since 2022, there have been 133 deaths in “jail-related deaths” in four Arizona counties, including Pima, Cochise, Santa Cruz and Graham counties. . This includes those who died while “interacting” with police agencies, were in custody, or died within 30 days of being released from police custody.

In the past two years, 30 people have died associated with Pima County, 16 of them from drug overdoses. Three died by suicide and 18 were involved in some kind of accident. according to to the data.

In 2023, seven people died from “jail-related deaths” at the Pima County Adult Detention Center, according to the database.