Human cost · named record
Lorth Sim
Entered the United States as a refugee in 1983 and became a lawful permanent resident in 1986.
The account in the record
The cited official or coroner-attributed record reports the cause of death as: Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, with diabetes mellitus as another significant condition.
Custody timeline and recorded facts
- Age at death
- 59
- Sex as published
- Male
- Reported citizenship
- Cambodia
- Date of death
- February 16, 2026
- Custody context
- custodial facility
- Place of death
- Miami Correctional Facility
- Place of death, state
- Indiana
What the reviewed sources do not tell us
- Date of birth: Not established in reviewed sources
- Custody began: Not established in reviewed sources
- Days in custody: Not established in reviewed sources
Cause and medical-review status
Official cause, per County coroner, as reported by Indiana Capital Chronicle / WIBC: Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, with diabetes mellitus as another significant condition
- Official cause
- Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, with diabetes mellitus as another significant condition
- Cause status as recorded
- official
- Attributed to
- County coroner, as reported by Indiana Capital Chronicle / WIBC
What the reviewed sources do not tell us
- Suspected cause: Not established in reviewed sources
- Manner of death: Not established in reviewed sources
What remains unknown or disputed
- Date of birth is not published in the reviewed sources.
- The public record does not establish a complete clinical or custodial chronology beyond what the cited sources publish.
Facility and institutional associations
Miami Correctional Facility — view the facility record
Custody location, not a finding of responsibility.
Why a facility name is not a finding of responsibility
Custodial records associate this person with this facility. This does not by itself establish that the facility or its operator caused or could have prevented the death.
Sources
Evidence boundaries
Cause, preventability, and responsibility are separate questions in this record.
What the sources establish
- The cited sources identify this person by name and record the death on the stated date within the report window.
- The cited sources associate the custody record with the named location.
- The cited source records the stated official or coroner-attributed cause.
What remains unknown
- Date of birth is not published in the reviewed sources.
- The public record does not establish a complete clinical or custodial chronology beyond what the cited sources publish.
What this record does not establish
- That detention, a facility, a contractor, or an individual caused the death unless a cited finding explicitly says so.
- That the death was preventable or negligent unless a cited source explicitly establishes that conclusion.
- A custodial-location association does not by itself establish that the facility or its operator caused or could have prevented the death.
The cited sources establish the public record stated here. They do not establish responsibility by an agency, facility, contractor, or individual.