METRO REENTRY FACILITY
Facility Information
- Bed Capacity
- 355 beds
- Current Population
- 355
- Active Lifers
- 37 (10.4% of population) · May 2026 GDC report
- Life Without Parole
- 1 (0.3%)
- Address
- 1301 Constitution Road SE, Atlanta, GA 30316
- Mailing Address
- PO Box 17668, Atlanta, GA 30316
- County
- Dekalb County
- Operator
- GDC (Georgia Dept. of Corrections)
- Warden
- Gregory Sampson
- Phone
- (404) 460-2100
- Fax
- (404) 624-2243
- Staff
- Deputy Warden Security: Robert Owens
- Deputy Warden C&T: Latrese Schofield
- Deputy Warden Admin: Adrienne Bunkley
- Superintendent: Cynthia Jackson-Parham
- Assistant Superintendent: Desmond Cofield
- Chief of Security: Hattie Fambro
About
Metro Reentry Facility, located in DeKalb County, Georgia, emerged as a documented site of custodial death in January 2026 when Silas Westbrook — transferred from Washington State Prison following a deadly gang-affiliated disturbance — suffered a fatal medical emergency upon arrival. The facility's role as a receiving point for injured and medically vulnerable prisoners transferred from other GDC institutions raises serious questions about intake protocols, medical readiness, and accountability for deaths that occur at the intersection of inter-facility transfers. GPS is tracking this death as part of the broader GDC mortality crisis, in which GPS has independently documented 1,795 deaths across the system since 2020.
Leadership & Accountability (as of 2026 records)
Officials currently holding positional authority at this facility, with deaths attributed to GPS-tracked records during their leadership tenure. Inclusion reflects role-based accountability, not legal findings of personal culpability. Death counts shown as facility / career.
| Role | Name | Since | Deaths this facility / career |
|---|---|---|---|
| Warden (facility lead) | Sampson, Gregory L | 2026-01-16 | 2 / 52 |
| Deputy Warden of Care and Treatment (facility deputy) | Schofield, Latrese Davis | 2025-05-01 | 10 / 10 |
| DEPUTY WARDEN (facility deputy) | Owens, Robert | 2025-01-01 | 17 / 17 |
| DEPUTY WARDEN (facility deputy) | Bunkley, Adrienne J | 2025-01-01 | 20 / 20 |
Key Facts
- Jan. 17, 2026 Silas Westbrook died at Metro Reentry Facility after collapsing upon arrival from Washington State Prison, becoming the 4th death tied to the Jan. 11 riot
- 4 deaths Total fatalities connected to the Washington State Prison gang-affiliated disturbance of January 11, 2026, including Westbrook's death at Metro Reentry
- 1,795 Total deaths in Georgia prisons documented by GPS since 2020 through independent investigation — the GDC does not publicly report cause-of-death data
- 95 deaths GPS-tracked GDC deaths in 2026 as of May 5, including 27 confirmed homicides and 56 unknown/pending classification
- 1,243 inmates GDC prisoners classified system-wide as having poorly controlled health conditions as of May 2026, highlighting the scale of medical vulnerability during transfers
By the Numbers
- 1,797 Total Deaths Tracked by GPS
- 29 Confirmed Homicides in 2026
- 6 Terminally Ill Inmates
- 2,530 Waiting in Jail (Backlog)
- 4,771 Drug Offenders (8.93%)
- 60.38% Black Inmates
Mortality Statistics
31 deaths documented at this facility from 2020 to present.
Deaths by Year
- 2026: 3
- 2025: 7
- 2024: 7
- 2023: 3
- 2022: 6
- 2021: 4
- 2020: 1
Food Safety Inspections
No inspection records are on file with the Georgia Department of Public Health for this facility. GPS has filed an open records request asking where these records are maintained.
What the score doesn't measure. DPH grades kitchen compliance on inspection day — food storage, temperatures, pest control. It does not grade whether today's trays are clean. GPS reporting has found broken dishwashers at most Georgia state prisons we've documented; trays go out wet, stacked, and visibly moldy — including at facilities with recent scores near 100.
Who inspects. Most Georgia state prisons sit in rural counties — often with fewer than 20,000 people, several with fewer than 10,000. The environmental health inspector lives in that community and often knows the kitchen staff personally. Rural inspection regimes don't have the structural independence you'd expect in a city-sized health department. Read the scores accordingly.
Read the investigation: “Dunked, Stacked and Served: Why Georgia Prison Trays Are Making People Sick”
The Metro Reentry Facility, located in DeKalb County, is operated by the Georgia Department of Corrections as a transitional facility intended to prepare incarcerated people for release. In January 2026, the facility entered the public record in a manner inconsistent with its rehabilitative mission: as the location where Silas Westbrook, the fourth man to die following a disturbance at Washington State Prison, was pronounced dead shortly after arrival.
A Transfer That Ended in Death on Arrival
News reporting established that Silas Westbrook had been hospitalized with what was described as minor injuries sustained during a January 12, 2026 disturbance at Washington State Prison. Following his hospitalization, he was transferred to the Metro Reentry Facility in DeKalb County. According to news accounts, Westbrook suffered a medical emergency upon arrival at Metro Reentry on January 17, 2026, and was pronounced deceased.
The sequence raises immediate questions that the public reporting does not resolve. A man treated for "minor" injuries was deemed medically cleared for transfer to a reentry facility — a setting designed for people approaching release, not for individuals requiring acute medical monitoring — and died on the day of that transfer. Whether the underlying cause was related to the Washington State Prison disturbance, to conditions during transport, to the medical handoff between the hospital and Metro Reentry, or to something else entirely is not yet established in the public record.
Investigation and Pending Determinations
The Georgia Department of Corrections' Office of Professional Standards is investigating Westbrook's death, according to news reporting, which framed his case as the fourth inmate fatality connected to the Washington State Prison disturbance. His body was turned over to the county coroner and was reported as being routed to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation crime lab for an official determination of cause of death.
As of the available reporting, no official cause of death has been published, and the OPS investigation remains open. The framing across multiple news accounts — that Westbrook is "the fourth inmate to die" following the January 12 disturbance — places Metro Reentry's role in this case within a larger and still-developing accountability story centered on Washington State Prison, rather than on Metro Reentry's own operations. What Metro Reentry's records will show about his condition on arrival, the medical assessment performed at intake, and the timeline between transfer and pronouncement are questions the pending GBI and OPS work may eventually answer.
Sources
This analysis draws on news reporting concerning the death of Silas Westbrook at the Metro Reentry Facility on January 17, 2026, and the related investigations being conducted by the GDC Office of Professional Standards and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation crime lab. The factual record on Metro Reentry's role in this matter remains limited to what has been publicly reported and what investigators eventually release.
Timeline (3)
Source Articles (4)
Former leadership
Officials who previously held leadership roles at this facility.
| Role | Name | Tenure | Deaths this facility / career |
|---|---|---|---|
| WARDEN 3 (facility lead) | Dills, Allen L | 2025-01-01 → 2026-01-15 | 18 / 28 |
| WARDEN 3 (facility lead) | Sampson, Gregory L | 2025-01-01 → 2025-01-31 | 2 / 52 |
| WARDEN 3 (facility lead) | Dills, Allen L | 2024-01-01 → 2024-12-31 | 18 / 28 |
| WARDEN 3 (facility lead) | Dills, Allen L | 2023-01-01 → 2023-12-31 | 18 / 28 |
| DEPUTY WARDEN (facility deputy) | Schofield, Latrese Davis | 2025-01-01 → 2025-04-30 | 10 / 10 |
| DEPUTY WARDEN (facility deputy) | Owens, Robert | 2024-01-01 → 2024-12-31 | 17 / 17 |
| DEPUTY WARDEN (facility deputy) | Bunkley, Adrienne J | 2024-01-01 → 2024-12-31 | 20 / 20 |
| DEPUTY WARDEN (facility deputy) | Fraser, Yolande | 2023-01-01 → 2023-12-31 | 14 / 14 |
| DEPUTY WARDEN (facility deputy) | Bunkley, Adrienne J | 2023-01-01 → 2023-12-31 | 20 / 20 |
| DEPUTY WARDEN (facility deputy) | Fraser, Yolande | 2022-01-01 → 2022-12-31 | 14 / 14 |
| DEPUTY WARDEN (facility deputy) | Fraser, Yolande | 2021-01-01 → 2021-12-31 | 14 / 14 |
| DEPUTY WARDEN (facility deputy) | Fraser, Yolande | 2020-01-01 → 2020-12-31 | 14 / 14 |