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ROGERS STATE PRISON

State Prison Medium Security GDC (Georgia Dept. of Corrections) Male
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Facility Information

Original Design Capacity
448 (at 267% capacity)
Bed Capacity
1,391 beds
Current Population
1,197
Active Lifers
18 (1.5% of population) · Oct 2026 GDC report
Why design capacity matters: Adding beds to a prison does not increase medical facilities, educational programs, kitchen capacity, counseling services, or recreation areas. In Brown v. Plata (2011), the U.S. Supreme Court upheld an order capping California's prisons at 137.5% of design capacity, after federal courts found that crowding was the primary cause of unconstitutional medical and mental-health care.
What the courts held in Brown v. Plata, and how Georgia compares →
Address
1978 GA Hwy 147, Reidsville, GA 30453
Phone
(912) 557-7771
Fax
(912) 557-7163
County
Tattnall County
Opened
1983
Operator
GDC (Georgia Dept. of Corrections)

Security Classification

Last updated: September 23, 2026

0 of the 1,193 people held here are classified Close security (0.0%), as of September 23, 2026.

Security levelPeopleShare
Medium75263.0%
Minimum44137.0%
Total1,193

Earlier count (undated table, produced October 22, 2025): 1 of 1,437 Close (0.1%).

Source: Georgia Department of Corrections records produced to GPS under the Open Records Act (R031471-090226, R024615-101925). A person's security level is GDC's classification of that person, which can differ from the prison's own designation.

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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.

RoleNameSinceDeaths
this facility / career
Warden (facility lead) Clark, LEE C2018-01-01— / —
Deputy Warden of Security (facility deputy) Byrd, Yolanda2019-01-0113 / 13
Deputy Warden of Care and Treatment (facility deputy) Kelley, Tina2024-09-165 / 5
Deputy Warden of Security (facility deputy) Montgomery, Marjorie L2026-09-16— / —
Deputy Warden of Administration (facility deputy) Forrest, Vicki2026-07-16— / —

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Last updated November 8, 2026.(DS)

Rogers State Prison: A Farm Prison's Death Record, a Contested Hanging, and the Machinery of Secrecy

Rogers State Prison sits on GA Highway 147 outside Reidsville in Tattnall County — a medium-security men's prison that opened in 1983, expanded over the decades, and today holds roughly 1,197 people against a rated capacity of 1,391, about 86 percent of capacity. Its original design capacity was 448. Housing runs to dormitories and cellblocks plus segregation units, and the institution carries an unusually heavy agricultural mission: a large farm, a dairy, a canning plant and a meat production operation that supply food to other Georgia prisons, worked largely by incarcerated labor. GPS's registry records 14 deaths at Rogers since January 2020. What follows examines that death record, the contested 2024 death of Taylor Hunt and his family's campaign for an independent inquiry, the facility's documented sanitation and contraband problems, and the staffing and oversight questions that run through all of it.

Fourteen Deaths, Five of Them Ruled Suicide

GPS's mortality registry records 14 deaths at Rogers State Prison since January 2020 — a figure GPS treats as a floor, because GDC reports deaths roughly two months late. By cause category the registry lists five suicides, five natural or medical deaths, three overdoses and one death whose cause remains unknown or pending.

The named dead, in the registry's own terms:

  • Chad Walker Jeter died March 17, 2021, at Rogers State Prison; GPS's registry lists the cause as Suicide. He was 43.
  • Michael Glenn McKee died May 22, 2021, at Rogers State Prison; the registry lists Suicide. He was 59.
  • Jeremy Lasean Walton died June 12, 2021, at Rogers State Prison; the registry lists Suicide. He was 31.
  • Timothy Brent Jenkins died April 7, 2022, at Rogers State Prison; the registry lists Overdose. He was 22.
  • Caleb Sexton died April 22, 2022, at Rogers State Prison; the registry lists Overdose. He was 21.
  • Bradley Lyle Weitzel died March 21, 2023, at Rogers State Prison; the registry lists Natural/Medical. He was 40.
  • William Joseph Smiley died August 15, 2023, at Rogers State Prison; the registry lists Overdose. He was 41.
  • Randall Henry Baker died December 6, 2023, at Rogers State Prison; the registry lists Natural/Medical. He was 38.
  • Shawn Remar Johnson died July 23, 2024, at Rogers State Prison; the registry lists Natural/Medical. He was 34.
  • Taylor Anthony Hunt died September 28, 2024, at Rogers State Prison; the registry lists Suicide. He was 29.
  • David Edward Wood died February 4, 2025, at Rogers State Prison; the registry lists Natural/Medical.
  • Justin Waymon Hollingsworth died June 26, 2025, at Rogers State Prison; the registry lists Suicide. He was 43.
  • Randy Eugene Stewart died July 17, 2025, at Rogers State Prison; the registry lists Natural/Medical. He was 60.
  • John Meeks died February 19, 2026, at Rogers State Prison; GPS does not yet know the cause, which the registry carries as Unknown/Pending. He was 49.

For context, GPS has independently tracked 1,928 deaths in GDC custody system-wide since 2020.

The Autopsy Record: What the Medical Examiners Found

The death records GPS holds for Rogers are unusually detailed, and they show a facility where natural deaths arrived through advanced, untreated or undertreated disease. Shawn Johnson, 34, presented to the medical unit complaining of shortness of breath before collapsing; Medical Examiner Robin Moiseff ruled the cause necrotizing pneumonia with streptococcal empyema, manner Natural, and noted that Johnson "reportedly had made several recent visits to the medical unit complaining of respiratory symptoms." Randy Eugene Stewart, 60, died at Memorial University Medical Center in Savannah on July 17, 2025, two days after admission, of E. coli peritonitis from a perforated duodenum, with diabetes, hypertension, cirrhosis and chronic hepatitis-C listed as contributing conditions; no autopsy was performed, and the coroner record shows family notification was made to Warden Sandi West with no family contact recorded. Randall Henry Baker, 38, collapsed while sitting on his bunk and died of hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease with near-total occlusion of his left anterior descending artery. David Edward Wood was alert at Rogers, developed chest pain, and was transported by EMS to Memorial Health Meadows Hospital in Vidalia, where he was pronounced dead of coronary atherosclerotic and hypertensive heart disease complicated by Influenza A.

The overdose deaths tell a different story. Timothy Jenkins, 22, had a known history of bronchial asthma and was housed in general population; he collapsed on his cell floor in the early morning of April 7, 2022, and was carried to the infirmary by other incarcerated men, where staff attempted resuscitation. The autopsy found hyperinflated lungs with mucous plugs, histologic findings consistent with chronic bronchial asthma, and low-level methamphetamine — the medical examiner attributing death to methamphetamine use precipitating a fatal asthma attack rather than overdose-level toxicity. Caleb Sexton, 21, was found unresponsive in the shower early on April 22, 2022 and pronounced dead at 05:40; a GBI Division of Forensic Sciences autopsy listed the manner as accident and the cause as toxic effects of methamphetamine.

Taylor Hunt: A Suicide Ruling His Family Does Not Accept

No death at Rogers has drawn more scrutiny than Taylor Hunt's. GDC officially ruled the cause suicide by hanging in the shower, and two autopsies were performed — one by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, one by an independent examiner — both ruling the cause suicide. GPS's review of autopsy photos provided by Hunt's family through a Department of Justice channel — the autopsy report itself remains withheld from the family by GBI — is consistent with strangulation rather than suicide by hanging, a finding GPS records as disputed.

The physical record around the case is contested at several points. GPS holds copies of notes that GDC staff presented as suicide letters from Hunt to his children; the notes contain misspellings of his own children's names, and GPS's comparison against Hunt's confirmed writing samples places their authenticity in serious question. Hunt's body was held for five days before transfer from the facility to authorities, per documentation in the family's possession comparing the death certificate to transfer paperwork. Hunt's family, with GPS support drafting formal letters, has requested a GBI homicide investigation and a coroner's inquest in Tattnall County; those requests have been denied or remain unanswered. The family has been denied the autopsy report by GBI on two separate requests, with GBI citing that the investigation remains open.

Hunt's mother, Heather Hunt Fountain, has taken the case public. In an August 10, 2026 Facebook post, she wrote that on September 27, 2024 the family was told her son had died at Rogers "But we weren't told how," and that five days later they were told two words: "A hanging." She wrote that the family was initially told there were no suicide notes, and that "Later, alleged suicide letters appeared. And our family says those letters are not in Taylor's handwriting." She called for independent authentication and asked the state to "explain why we were originally told there were no suicide notes." Her account is her own; GPS's reporting describes a case in which the physical evidence and the official ruling have never been reconciled in public.

The Other Suicides: Jeter, McKee, Walton, Hollingsworth

The four other men whose deaths GDC classified as suicide at Rogers died in circumstances the autopsy record documents in granular and sometimes troubling detail.

Chad Walker Jeter, 43, returned to Rogers on February 23, 2021. On March 17, 2021, he was alone and locked in a fenced recreation area; guards checked at 1645 and found him kneeling with his head in an improvised ligature made from his sock tied to the fence, and he was pronounced dead at the prison at 1714. The GBI autopsy by Edmund Donoghue found no trauma, and the DOC investigator saw no suspicion of foul play — but no ligature was submitted with the body, and toxicology was positive for methamphetamine at 0.84 mg/L.

Michael Glenn McKee, 59, died May 22, 2021; the GBI autopsy, case 2021-6003248, certified hanging and suicide after a complete autopsy and toxicology. Jeremy Lasean Walton, 31, died June 12, 2021; GBI case 2021-6003956 likewise certified hanging and suicide.

Justin Waymon Hollingsworth, 43, died June 26, 2025, in a one-man cell in cell block A. The coroner was dispatched at 12:46 AM and arrived at 1:20 AM; GRC team arrival was delayed about an hour before the coroner had access to the cell. Per Guard King, Hollingsworth was originally found hanging from a vent with a belt around his neck; the decedent was found lying on the floor next to the bed. A limited autopsy was performed June 27 at the Coastal Crime Lab in Pooler by Daniel K. Brown, MD, and the GBI report certifies verbatim "Cause of Death: Hanging. Manner of Death: Suicide." The medical examiner certified the cause without waiting for toxicology, which was produced August 1, 2025. The ligature, reported as a belt, did not accompany the body. GDC's offender summary in the coroner packet noted a history of unspecified mental health issues and hypertensive cardiovascular disease.

Staffing, Contraband, and the Drone Purchase

Rogers operates inside a system GPS has documented as structurally understaffed. Officer vacancies in Georgia's prisons have run between 49.3% and 60% systemwide for multiple years against a national standard of no more than 10 percent, and the October 2024 DOJ findings letter concluded that "the leadership of the Georgia Department of Corrections has lost control of its facilities," faulting GDC for placing "too much blame on gangs and insufficient emphasis on understaffing." Rauf Latham, who was incarcerated in GDC for over 12 years, said in a July 2026 YouTube interview with Tyler Ryals that when he got to Rogers State Prison from Hays, staffing was short but nowhere near as bad as it was by the time he left in 2021. GPS records show staffing-shortage signals at Rogers across multiple months in 2026 at high and moderate severity, and inmate accounts collected by GPS describe severe understaffing and officers who, in the aggregate telling, refuse requests for help.

Contraband is the other constant. GPS records show assault-by-inmate signals at Rogers at critical, high and moderate severity across 2026, and GPS has received accounts of officers stabbed at the facility. The state's own purchasing record shows what GDC has bought in response: purchase order 624070, dated June 18, 2024 and marked COMPLETED, totals $494,895.00 for "Rogers State Prison Drone Detection," issued to DG Investment Intermediate Holdings 2 of Norcross under state contract 99999-SPD0000172-006, with Convergint of Duluth as vendor contact and Sean Ferguson listed as the GDC point of contact at Rogers. The line items are specific: $150,446.25 in installation costs, four AirWarden RF sensors at $66,620.40, an AirWarden Direction Finder Module at $16,655.10, and three-year subscriptions running to $94,080 for sensor service and $58,800 for the control server. GPS obtained the order through an open-records request for GDC's drone-detection purchases since 2017.

Food, Sanitation, and the Limits of the Inspection Score

Rogers runs one of the system's largest food operations, and the Georgia Department of Public Health has inspected its kitchen six times since August 2023. The scores are 94 (Grade A) in August 2023, 92 (A) in March 2024, 82 (Grade B) in October 2024, 91 (A) in April 2025, 92 (A) in November 2025, and 85 (Grade B) in July 2026 — all routine inspections by Lance Dasher. The October 2024 inspection cited improper hot holding temperatures and food not properly labeled; the July 2026 inspection cited improper cold holding temperatures and uncleanable or improperly constructed food-contact surfaces.

GPS has documented a systemic pattern of food-service sanitation failure across GDC kitchens that DPH inspection scores systematically fail to capture — broken tray-sanitizing dishwashers, sustained roach and rodent infestation, and meals served on contaminated trays — a pattern GPS attributes in part to scheduled walkthroughs that do not assess equipment under load. The Marshall Project independently reported the broader pattern on May 16, 2026, documenting rats in kitchens, insects in food, moldy trays, and visible malnutrition across Georgia facilities. GPS records show family-safety-concern signals at Rogers in 2026, and GPS has received recurring reports from families of inadequate food and inflated commissary prices. GPS has additionally received accounts of pests — rats, rabbits and snakes — entering buildings at Rogers, with snakes reported to drop from ceilings.

Medical and Mental Health Staffing by Contract

The care available at Rogers is delivered under contract, and the contract documents GPS obtained through open records show the scale. MHM Correctional Services' staffing matrix for Rogers lists a total mental health allocation of 5.25 FTE at 210 hours per week and $634,690 annually — one MH unit manager, 3.25 mental health counselors, a half-time psychiatrist at $189.01 an hour, and a half-time clinical director. Dental staffing totals 2.50 FTE at 100 hours per week and $303,778: one dentist, a half-time hygienist and one assistant. Centurion's proposed medical staffing matrix for Rogers totals 664 weekly hours, or 16.60 FTE, including an LPN allocation of 168 hours, an NP/PA at 80 hours, and one administrative position. Earlier MHM amendments show the facility's allocation moving from 0.50 in Amendment 4 to 7.50 total FTE in Amendment 5 and 7.75 in the dental matrix of Amendment 7.

Against that matrix sits the death record. GPS records show due-process-violation signals at Rogers concentrated in September 2026 at high and moderate severity, and staff-misconduct signals — both named and unnamed — in the same month. GPS's intelligence system also records external complaints filed to the Georgia Innocence Project and the U.S. Department of Justice in the July–September 2026 window. GPS has received accounts of an incarcerated person at Rogers denied timely medical attention during a serious respiratory episode and threatened with segregation for continuing to seek care; those accounts are family attestations and have not been independently confirmed.

A Farm, a Cemetery, and a Record That Stays Contested

Rogers' agricultural mission is the facility's defining feature and its least examined one. GPS has received accounts describing a for-profit beef cattle and dairy operation whose milk is supplied to the incarcerated population, and accounts that milk cartons were rebranded under a label that dropped the words "State Prison." GPS has also received accounts that the facility's slaughterhouse operation closed following a failed USDA inspection rather than through state investment in upgrades. These are accounts, not findings, and GPS has not independently verified them.

The prison also maintains a cemetery. Randy Eugene Stewart's body was released for burial at the Georgia State Prison Cemetery on GA Highway 178 in Reidsville on July 29, 2025, with Bradley B. Anderson as funeral director and Pharis Daniel Bennett as embalmer.

What ties the record together is a pattern of official accounts that families and GPS's own review have found incomplete. GDC has not officially confirmed several of the deaths in GPS's registry. GDC does not publish cause of death as a matter of course; the only GDC-sourced cause-of-death entries in GPS's database come from a January 2025 list of 29 rows that appears to have been released in error. In Hunt's case, a family was told no suicide notes existed, and letters later appeared; a video GDC initially said did not exist was, according to accounts GPS has received, shown once to the family under restrictions. Two state liability settlements are recorded against the facility in the DOAS Risk Management ledger: $17,500 to Angelo Lamar Roberson for a 2019 incident, and $75 to Carl Garrett for a 2017 incident.

The current leadership at Rogers is Warden Lee C. Clark, with Deputy Wardens of Security Marjorie L. Montgomery and Yolanda Byrd, Deputy Warden of Care and Treatment Tina Kelley, and Deputy Warden of Administration Vicki Forrest. The questions the record leaves open — what happened in the shower on September 27, 2024; why a belt did not accompany Justin Hollingsworth's body; how a facility with a 5.25-FTE mental health allocation and a documented systemwide staffing collapse is meant to prevent the next hanging — are questions the state has not answered in public.

Sources

This analysis draws on GPS's mortality registry and its review of autopsy photographs and case files; Georgia Bureau of Investigation Division of Forensic Sciences autopsy reports obtained through open records; Tattnall County coroner records and death certificates; Georgia Department of Public Health food-safety inspection reports; Georgia Department of Administrative Services Risk Management settlement records; GDC purchase order 624070 and the drone-detection purchase records released under GPS open-records request R032544-101826; MHM Correctional Services and Centurion staffing matrices released under request R032595-101926; a July 2026 YouTube interview with Rauf Latham conducted by Tyler Ryals; a Facebook post by Heather Hunt Fountain dated August 10, 2026; The Marshall Project's May 16, 2026 investigation of Georgia prison food; the U.S. Department of Justice's October 2024 findings letter on Georgia prisons; and accounts collected by GPS staff from families and incarcerated people.

Mortality Statistics

14 deaths documented at this facility from 2020 to present.

Deaths by Year

  • 2026: 1
  • 2025: 3
  • 2024: 2
  • 2023: 3
  • 2022: 2
  • 2021: 3
  • 2020: 0

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County Public Health Department

Food service and sanitation at ROGERS STATE PRISON fall under the jurisdiction of the Tattnall County Environmental Health Department. Incarcerated people cannot choose where they eat — public health inspectors carry an elevated responsibility to hold this kitchen to the same standards applied to any restaurant.

Contact

Title
EH Specialist
Name
Lance Dasher
Address
P.O. Box 353
Glennville, GA 30427
Phone
(855) 473-4374
Email
Lance.Dasher@dph.ga.gov
Website
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Why this matters

GPS has documented black mold on chow-hall ceilings, cold and contaminated trays, spoiled milk, and pest contamination at Georgia prisons. The Department of Justice's 2024 report confirmed deaths from dehydration and untreated diabetes tied to food and water deprivation. Advance-notice inspections let facilities stage temporary fixes that disappear once inspectors leave.

Unannounced inspections by the county health department are one of the few outside checks on kitchen conditions behind the fence.

How you can help

Write to the county inspector and request an unannounced inspection of the kitchen and food service operation at this facility. A short, respectful letter citing Georgia food-safety regulations is more powerful than you think — inspectors respond to public concern.

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Food Safety Inspections

Georgia Department of Public Health

Latest score: 85 (Jul 8, 2026)
View DPH report ↗

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”

Recent inspections

DateScorePurpose
Jul 8, 202685Routine
Nov 19, 202592Routine
Apr 30, 202591Routine
Oct 31, 202482Routine
Mar 21, 202492Routine
Aug 23, 202394Routine

Source: Georgia Department of Public Health — data last refreshed November 5, 2026. Search all Georgia inspections ↗

Recent reports (10)

Source-attributed observations and allegations from news coverage and reports submitted to GPS. Each entry credits its source.

  • ALLEGATION According to Facebook (public comment, Georgia prison family group) Recorded by GPS: Sep 1, 2026
    Civilian farm supervisor supplied vapes and computer access on the GCI dairy detail, then blamed the workers — collective loss of detail (Rogers State Prison) — A formerly incarcerated man says a civilian farm hand overseeing the dairy-milking detail at Rogers State Prison supplied vapes to the men working it and let them into the farm office to use a computer. When Georgia Correctional Industries staff discovered prisoners had been in the office, the poster says the same staffer told them the men had broken in. The poster says he was accused of stealing food and drink mixes, lost his work detail over the episode, and was refused any detail for the remainder of his sentence — while, he says, the actual thefts were later traced to a different shift.
    "when I worked as a dairy Milker (milking cows) there was a farm hand named [first name withheld by GPS] he'd get vapes for the inmates to hit while working and letting inmates into the office to get on the computer where I was wrongfully accused of stealing food,drink mixes... but when the GCI workers found out people were going into the office the farm hand blamed us all for breaking in when he'd let us in... which was found out later to be morning dairy milkers who stole food and etc but I lost my detail and was refused a detail for the rest of my time"
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  • ALLEGATION According to Facebook (public comment, Georgia prison family group) Recorded by GPS: Sep 1, 2026
    Counselor known to prisoners as "Cowboy" arrested for bringing in drugs and phones (Rogers State Prison) — A formerly incarcerated man, posting publicly, says a counselor at Rogers State Prison whom prisoners called "Cowboy" — identifiable by his cowboy hat, boots and dress shirts — was arrested after staff learned he was bringing contraband drugs ("toochie") and cell phones into the facility. The account is undated; the poster describes a past period of incarceration at Rogers and does not state years.
    "there was a councilor the inmates called "cowboy" wore cowboy hat boots and nice button ups he was arrested after they found out he was bringing in toochie and phones"
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  • ALLEGATION Received as Family or inmate communication Recorded by GPS: Jun 2, 2026
    Guard Stabbing Incident
    "Just a POI = now theyve been on "modified lockdown" still from the Blood / GF battles and the stabbing of the guards at Rogers. Haven't heard anything about scabies recently. On Tue, Jun 2, 2026 at 11:10 AM GPS Advocate Network <team@mail.gps.press> wrote:"
    Read source →
  • OBSERVATION According to Facebook, Heather Hunt Published: Aug 10, 2026
    Heather Hunt wrote on Facebook on August 10, 2026: "My name is Heather Hunt Fountain, and I am the mother of Taylor Anthony Hunt. Taylor was 29 years old. He was a father, a son, a grandson, and a veteran. On September 27, 2024, we were told Taylor had died while incarcerated at Rogers State Prison. But we weren’t told how. For five days, my family knew my son was dead without knowing how he died. Five days later, we were finally told two words: “A hanging.” Not “suicide.” Not “suicide by hanging.” “A hanging.” I didn’t begin with a theory. I began with questions. And almost two years later, I am still asking them. Today is Prisoners’ Justice Day, and Taylor is not the only reason I am speaking out today. In 2024, 332 people died in Georgia’s state correctional facilities. Three hundred and thirty-two human beings. Since 2020, over 1,900 people have died in GDOC custody. And I deliberately say deaths—not homicides—because I don’t want this conversation to depend upon what label the government puts beside someone’s name. Every one of those numbers represents somebody’s child, parent, brother, sister or spouse. And while people were dying at extraordinary levels, GDC actually stopped including the initial manner of death in the monthly mortality reports it had previously published. At the same time, the U.S. Department of Justice concluded that Georgia was failing to protect incarcerated people from widespread violence and harm. I have watch some our Georgia political leaders this month on the campaign trail speaking so eloquently as they are demanding transparency from the federal government and other political entities. So I went to the Georgia State Capitol today, with one question: Why do our leaders demand transparency from Washington while families like mine have to fight their own state government for it? Transparency cannot be something you believe in only when you’re demanding it from somebody else. Transparency begins at home. Let me tell you what that fight has looked like for my family. When we went to Rogers looking for answers, we were told: There were no suicide notes. We were told there was video showing Taylor throwing away his belongings before he killed himself. Later, alleged suicide letters appeared. And our family says those letters are not in Taylor’s handwriting. So independently authenticate them. Tell us where they were found, when they were found, who found them and who handled them. And explain why we were originally told there were no suicide notes. Then came October 9. That […]"
    "My name is Heather Hunt Fountain, and I am the mother of Taylor Anthony Hunt. Taylor was 29 years old. He was a father, a son, a grandson, and a veteran. On September 27, 2024, we were told Taylor had died while incarcerated at Rogers State Prison. But we weren’t told how. For five days, my family knew my son was dead without knowing how he died. Five days later, we were finally told two words: “A hanging.” Not “suicide.” Not “suicide by hanging.” “A hanging.” I didn’t begin with a theory. I began with questions. And almost two years later, I am still asking them. Today is Prisoners’ Justice Day, and Taylor is not the only reason I am speaking out today. In 2024, 332 people died in Georgia’s state correctional facilities. Three hundred and thirty-two human beings. Since 2020, over 1,900 people have died in GDOC custody. And I deliberately say deaths—not homicides—because I don’t want this conversation to depend upon what label the government puts beside someone’s name. Every one of those numbers represents somebody’s child, parent, brother, sister or spouse. And while people were dying at extraordinary levels, GDC actually stopped including the initial manner of death in the monthly mortality reports it had previously published. At the same time, the U.S. Department of Justice concluded that Georgia was failing to protect incarcerated people from widespread violence and harm. I have watch some our Georgia political leaders this month on the campaign trail speaking so eloquently as they are demanding transparency from the federal government and other political entities. So I went to the Georgia State Capitol today, with one question: Why do our leaders demand transparency from Washington while families like mine have to fight their own state government for it? Transparency cannot be something you believe in only when you’re demanding it from somebody else. Transparency begins at home. Let me tell you what that fight has looked like for my family. When we went to Rogers looking for answers, we were told: There were no suicide notes. We were told there was video showing Taylor throwing away his belongings before he killed himself. Later, alleged suicide letters appeared. And our family says those letters are not in Taylor’s handwriting. So independently authenticate them. Tell us where they were found, when they were found, who found them and who handled them. And explain why we were originally told there were no suicide notes. Then came October 9. That day, my Facebook post asking questions about Taylor’s death went viral. The purported letter from an inmate friend I received was postmarked October 9. And the incident report concerning Taylor’s September 27 death was also dated October 9(not filled out AT ALL until October 9th.) So I ask: Why October 9? I’m not asking you to accept my conclusion about what that means. I’m asking for an INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION that can determine what it means. Even the 911 call raises questions. Rogers is in Tattnall County. But the call went first to Bulloch County 911 and was transferred to Tattnall County. The caller said she was outside the prison. And she reported that CPR and an AED were being used on Taylor. So I requested the records documenting those lifesaving measures. AED data. Timestamps. Emergency-response records. Who performed CPR. Who operated the AED. We were told the records we requested DID NOT EXIST. How do lifesaving measures exist in the story— but not in the records? Other evidence raises questions too. Taylor’s white pants and white underwear were DISPOSED OF. FLEX CUFFS were retained. Why? When were they used? Who put them on him? Then there is what happened to Taylor’s body. By the time he reached Gwinnett for another examination, he had already been autopsied. According to what our family observed and learned, there was a BLACK PLASTIC BAG over his head. He had not been sewn back together. There was blood on him.(But he supposedly hung himself.) His removed organs (EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM)were together in plastic bag diced up resting at his feet. And for approximately SEVEN DAYS, our family had been unable to account for where his body was. HIS HYOID BONE HAD BEEN REMOVED AND RETAINED AND WE BURIED HIM WITHOUT BEING NOTIFIED….despite the fact the autopsy report later claimed it was normal and in tact. So, why remove it? And even more so, WHY KEEP IT? We have repeatedly requested its return. We still don’t have it. Almost two years later, I still don’t have all of my son back. And material we saw beneath Taylor’s fingernails that we believed could have forensic significance was no longer available in its original condition after his hands were washed. You only get one untouched body. You only get one original death scene. Once evidence is LOST, DISCARDED, WASHED AWAY or DESTROYED— no second autopsy can put it back. So we asked for records. Investigative reports. Photographs. Witness statements. Communications. Staff rosters Emergency-response records. Evidence and chain-of-custody information. What did we get? A heavily redacted incident report and a handful of intake records. The rest has been withheld, declared exempt, said not to exist, or placed beyond our reach without a subpoena. And then something extraordinary happened. Taylor’s case was closed. We received his death certificate. Then I continued requesting the evidence underlying that conclusion. THE CASE WAS REOPENED WITH NO EXPLANATION DESPITE MY BEGGING. And an open investigation became another basis for withholding investigative records. Meanwhile, inmates have told us GBI investigators were at Rogers questioning inmates and strip-searching them while looking for injuries or wounds. Those are witness accounts. But if they are true— where are the investigative records? What were investigators looking for? What did they find? And why can’t Taylor’s family see it? We also on multiple occasions have formally requested a coroner’s inquest. No inquest has been held. So here is where Taylor’s family stands: We weren’t told how he died for five days. We were told there were no suicide notes—then alleged letters appeared that our family says Taylor didn’t write. We were told there was video of him throwing away all of his belongings before he killed himself (which they found safe and sound in the deputy warden’s office after my post on October 9th went viral)—we haven’t received it. The 911 caller reported CPR and an AED—the records we sought were said not to exist. His clothing was disposed of. Flex cuffs were retained. His hyoid was removed and still hasn’t been returned. We requested an inquest—none has been held. The case was closed, a death certificate was issued, and later the case was reopened while investigative records remained beyond our reach. And I am still HERE ASKING: WHAT HAPPENED TO MY SON? I am not asking you to believe me instead of the government. I am asking you to require the government to prove what it says. If Taylor died exactly as the State ultimately concluded— SHOW US THE EVIDENCE If the letters are his— AUTHENTICATE THEM. If the timeline is accurate— PRODUCE THE RECORDS If lifesaving measures occurred— SHOW US THE RECORDS. If every one of these questions has an innocent explanation— THEN TRANSPARENCY SHOULD PROVE IT. And there is an election coming. So I am asking every Georgian: Ask every candidate and every incumbent—regardless of party: What are you going to do about the people dying behind Georgia’s prison walls? Will you require transparency when someone dies in state custody? Will you require preservation of evidence? Will you support independent review? Will you protect the people who are still inside? And will you give their families answers? Don’t accept a talking point. Ask for a commitment. Ask them at campaign events. Call their offices. Write them. AND REMEMBER THEIR ANSWERS WHEN YOU VOTE. Taylor cannot request his records. Taylor cannot demand an inquest. Taylor cannot walk into the Capitol and demand answers. And Taylor cannot vote. BUT WE CAN! Families DESERVE to know how their loved ones died. They deserve the TRUTH. Those still behind those walls deserve PROTECTION. And TRANSPARENCY and ACCOUNTABILITY are not negotiable. My son’s name is TAYLOR ANTHONY HUNT. Remember his face. Remember his name. And when somebody asks for the PRIVILEGE OF GOVERNING THIS STATE— make them answer for what is happening inside its prisons. Truth for Taylor. Justice for those we’ve lost. Protection for those still inside. And ACCOUNTABILITY from those in power. SHARE THIS PLEASE. #TruthforTaylor #FollowTheEvidence #georgiacapitol #georgiaprison #prisonreform #deathsincustody #GovernmentTransparency"
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  • OBSERVATION According to Facebook, Tyler Ryals Published: Aug 10, 2026
    Tyler Ryals, a former GDC officer, wrote on Facebook on August 10, 2026: "My name is Heather Hunt Fountain, and I am the mother of Taylor Anthony Hunt. Taylor was 29 years old. He was a father, a son, a grandson, and a veteran. On September 27, 2024, we were told Taylor had died while incarcerated at Rogers State Prison. But we weren’t told how. For five days, my family knew my son was dead without knowing how he died. Five days later, we were finally told two words: “A hanging.” Not “suicide.” Not “suicide by hanging.” “A hanging.” I didn’t begin with a theory. I began with questions. And almost two years later, I am still asking them. Today is Prisoners’ Justice Day, and Taylor is not the only reason I am speaking out today. In 2024, 332 people died in Georgia’s state correctional facilities. Three hundred and thirty-two human beings. Since 2020, over 1,900 people have died in GDOC custody. And I deliberately say deaths—not homicides—because I don’t want this conversation to depend upon what label the government puts beside someone’s name. Every one of those numbers represents somebody’s child, parent, brother, sister or spouse. And while people were dying at extraordinary levels, GDC actually stopped including the initial manner of death in the monthly mortality reports it had previously published. At the same time, the U.S. Department of Justice concluded that Georgia was failing to protect incarcerated people from widespread violence and harm. I have watch some our Georgia political leaders this month on the campaign trail speaking so eloquently as they are demanding transparency from the federal government and other political entities. So I went to the Georgia State Capitol today, with one question: Why do our leaders demand transparency from Washington while families like mine have to fight their own state government for it? Transparency cannot be something you believe in only when you’re demanding it from somebody else. Transparency begins at home. Let me tell you what that fight has looked like for my family. When we went to Rogers looking for answers, we were told: There were no suicide notes. We were told there was video showing Taylor throwing away his belongings before he killed himself. Later, alleged suicide letters appeared. And our family says those letters are not in Taylor’s handwriting. So independently authenticate them. Tell us where they were found, when they were found, who found them and who handled them. And explain why we were originally told there were no suicide notes. Then came October 9. That […]"
    "My name is Heather Hunt Fountain, and I am the mother of Taylor Anthony Hunt. Taylor was 29 years old. He was a father, a son, a grandson, and a veteran. On September 27, 2024, we were told Taylor had died while incarcerated at Rogers State Prison. But we weren’t told how. For five days, my family knew my son was dead without knowing how he died. Five days later, we were finally told two words: “A hanging.” Not “suicide.” Not “suicide by hanging.” “A hanging.” I didn’t begin with a theory. I began with questions. And almost two years later, I am still asking them. Today is Prisoners’ Justice Day, and Taylor is not the only reason I am speaking out today. In 2024, 332 people died in Georgia’s state correctional facilities. Three hundred and thirty-two human beings. Since 2020, over 1,900 people have died in GDOC custody. And I deliberately say deaths—not homicides—because I don’t want this conversation to depend upon what label the government puts beside someone’s name. Every one of those numbers represents somebody’s child, parent, brother, sister or spouse. And while people were dying at extraordinary levels, GDC actually stopped including the initial manner of death in the monthly mortality reports it had previously published. At the same time, the U.S. Department of Justice concluded that Georgia was failing to protect incarcerated people from widespread violence and harm. I have watch some our Georgia political leaders this month on the campaign trail speaking so eloquently as they are demanding transparency from the federal government and other political entities. So I went to the Georgia State Capitol today, with one question: Why do our leaders demand transparency from Washington while families like mine have to fight their own state government for it? Transparency cannot be something you believe in only when you’re demanding it from somebody else. Transparency begins at home. Let me tell you what that fight has looked like for my family. When we went to Rogers looking for answers, we were told: There were no suicide notes. We were told there was video showing Taylor throwing away his belongings before he killed himself. Later, alleged suicide letters appeared. And our family says those letters are not in Taylor’s handwriting. So independently authenticate them. Tell us where they were found, when they were found, who found them and who handled them. And explain why we were originally told there were no suicide notes. Then came October 9. That day, my Facebook post asking questions about Taylor’s death went viral. The purported letter from an inmate friend I received was postmarked October 9. And the incident report concerning Taylor’s September 27 death was also dated October 9(not filled out AT ALL until October 9th.) So I ask: Why October 9? I’m not asking you to accept my conclusion about what that means. I’m asking for an INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION that can determine what it means. Even the 911 call raises questions. Rogers is in Tattnall County. But the call went first to Bulloch County 911 and was transferred to Tattnall County. The caller said she was outside the prison. And she reported that CPR and an AED were being used on Taylor. So I requested the records documenting those lifesaving measures. AED data. Timestamps. Emergency-response records. Who performed CPR. Who operated the AED. We were told the records we requested DID NOT EXIST. How do lifesaving measures exist in the story— but not in the records? Other evidence raises questions too. Taylor’s white pants and white underwear were DISPOSED OF. FLEX CUFFS were retained. Why? When were they used? Who put them on him? Then there is what happened to Taylor’s body. By the time he reached Gwinnett for another examination, he had already been autopsied. According to what our family observed and learned, there was a BLACK PLASTIC BAG over his head. He had not been sewn back together. There was blood on him.(But he supposedly hung himself.) His removed organs (EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM)were together in plastic bag diced up resting at his feet. And for approximately SEVEN DAYS, our family had been unable to account for where his body was. HIS HYOID BONE HAD BEEN REMOVED AND RETAINED AND WE BURIED HIM WITHOUT BEING NOTIFIED….despite the fact the autopsy report later claimed it was normal and in tact. So, why remove it? And even more so, WHY KEEP IT? We have repeatedly requested its return. We still don’t have it. Almost two years later, I still don’t have all of my son back. And material we saw beneath Taylor’s fingernails that we believed could have forensic significance was no longer available in its original condition after his hands were washed. You only get one untouched body. You only get one original death scene. Once evidence is LOST, DISCARDED, WASHED AWAY or DESTROYED— no second autopsy can put it back. So we asked for records. Investigative reports. Photographs. Witness statements. Communications. Staff rosters Emergency-response records. Evidence and chain-of-custody information. What did we get? A heavily redacted incident report and a handful of intake records. The rest has been withheld, declared exempt, said not to exist, or placed beyond our reach without a subpoena. And then something extraordinary happened. Taylor’s case was closed. We received his death certificate. Then I continued requesting the evidence underlying that conclusion. THE CASE WAS REOPENED WITH NO EXPLANATION DESPITE MY BEGGING. And an open investigation became another basis for withholding investigative records. Meanwhile, inmates have told us GBI investigators were at Rogers questioning inmates and strip-searching them while looking for injuries or wounds. Those are witness accounts. But if they are true— where are the investigative records? What were investigators looking for? What did they find? And why can’t Taylor’s family see it? We also on multiple occasions have formally requested a coroner’s inquest. No inquest has been held. So here is where Taylor’s family stands: We weren’t told how he died for five days. We were told there were no suicide notes—then alleged letters appeared that our family says Taylor didn’t write. We were told there was video of him throwing away all of his belongings before he killed himself (which they found safe and sound in the deputy warden’s office after my post on October 9th went viral)—we haven’t received it. The 911 caller reported CPR and an AED—the records we sought were said not to exist. His clothing was disposed of. Flex cuffs were retained. His hyoid was removed and still hasn’t been returned. We requested an inquest—none has been held. The case was closed, a death certificate was issued, and later the case was reopened while investigative records remained beyond our reach. And I am still HERE ASKING: WHAT HAPPENED TO MY SON? I am not asking you to believe me instead of the government. I am asking you to require the government to prove what it says. If Taylor died exactly as the State ultimately concluded— SHOW US THE EVIDENCE If the letters are his— AUTHENTICATE THEM. If the timeline is accurate— PRODUCE THE RECORDS If lifesaving measures occurred— SHOW US THE RECORDS. If every one of these questions has an innocent explanation— THEN TRANSPARENCY SHOULD PROVE IT. And there is an election coming. So I am asking every Georgian: Ask every candidate and every incumbent—regardless of party: What are you going to do about the people dying behind Georgia’s prison walls? Will you require transparency when someone dies in state custody? Will you require preservation of evidence? Will you support independent review? Will you protect the people who are still inside? And will you give their families answers? Don’t accept a talking point. Ask for a commitment. Ask them at campaign events. Call their offices. Write them. AND REMEMBER THEIR ANSWERS WHEN YOU VOTE. Taylor cannot request his records. Taylor cannot demand an inquest. Taylor cannot walk into the Capitol and demand answers. And Taylor cannot vote. BUT WE CAN! Families DESERVE to know how their loved ones died. They deserve the TRUTH. Those still behind those walls deserve PROTECTION. And TRANSPARENCY and ACCOUNTABILITY are not negotiable. My son’s name is TAYLOR ANTHONY HUNT. Remember his face. Remember his name. And when somebody asks for the PRIVILEGE OF GOVERNING THIS STATE— make them answer for what is happening inside its prisons. Truth for Taylor. Justice for those we’ve lost. Protection for those still inside. And ACCOUNTABILITY from those in power. SHARE THIS PLEASE. #TruthforTaylor #FollowTheEvidence #georgiacapitol #georgiaprison #prisonreform #deathsincustody #GovernmentTransparency"
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Timeline (13)

September 1, 2026
Contraband surge in H building within a week of a publicized drone interdiction (Rogers State Prison) — A formerly incarcerated man says that less than a week after a drone was intercepted at Rogers State Prison, H building saw an influx of cell phones, marijuana, methamphetamine and strips. He offers his own inference that the drone bust functioned as a front. GPS enters the observed timing; the inference is the poster's. report
Claim: The poster says that within a week of a drone interdiction at Rogers State Prison, H building experienced an overflow of contraband — cell phones, marijuana, methamphetamine and strips. He states his belief that the drone bust was "a…
September 1, 2026
Understaffing and officer conduct — refusal to assist, provocation, "maybe you shouldn't have come to prison" (Rogers State Prison) — A formerly incarcerated man describes Rogers State Prison as badly understaffed, and says some officers were on a power trip, some refused to help when asked, and some would try to provoke prisoners at any opportunity. He gives the standard response to a request for help as: "maybe you shouldn't have come to prison." report
Claim: The poster describes Rogers State Prison as severely understaffed and characterizes officer conduct in three patterns: officers exercising authority punitively, officers declining to assist prisoners who ask for help, and officers actively provoking prisoners. He reports the routine answer…
September 1, 2026
Fan motor fire in H-2 attributed by maintenance to the motor, then charged to a prisoner — witness account (Rogers State Prison) — A formerly incarcerated man says a fan in H-2 malfunctioned and its motor caught fire, that all of H building was evacuated outside, and that the maintenance worker on scene confirmed to prisoners that the motor was the cause. He says the warden then arrived with a fire chief and the two discussed having to attribute the fire to someone, that prisoners watching objected because they had already been told the cause, and that later the same day a man was removed from H-2 and charged. The poster, housed in H-4, does not know his name and says he believes the man was wrongfully accused. report
Claim: A ceiling fan in H-2 at Rogers State Prison malfunctioned and its motor caught fire. All of H building was evacuated to the outside. Prisoners watched a maintenance worker examine the fan; when asked whether the motor was the…
September 1, 2026
Callouts and yard access denied under lockdowns that are not actually in effect (Rogers State Prison, H building / "trackside") — A formerly incarcerated man says men housed on the "trackside" side of Rogers State Prison are issued callouts they rarely get to attend, with staff citing a lockdown he says is not actually happening, and that men housed in H building rarely receive a yard call to go outside. report
Claim: Prisoners housed on the side of Rogers State Prison referred to as "trackside" are scheduled callouts — the appointments that carry medical, mental health, counselor, education, and program access — but rarely reach them. The poster says the reason…
September 1, 2026
Civilian farm supervisor supplied vapes and computer access on the GCI dairy detail, then blamed the workers — collective loss of detail (Rogers State Prison) — A formerly incarcerated man says a civilian farm hand overseeing the dairy-milking detail at Rogers State Prison supplied vapes to the men working it and let them into the farm office to use a computer. When Georgia Correctional Industries staff discovered prisoners had been in the office, the poster says the same staffer told them the men had broken in. The poster says he was accused of stealing food and drink mixes, lost his work detail over the episode, and was refused any detail for the remainder of his sentence — while, he says, the actual thefts were later traced to a different shift. report
Claim: On the dairy-milking work detail at Rogers State Prison, a civilian farm hand (identified in the post by first name only) obtained vapes for prisoners to use during work hours and allowed them into the farm office, where they…
September 1, 2026
Counselor known to prisoners as "Cowboy" arrested for bringing in drugs and phones (Rogers State Prison) — A formerly incarcerated man, posting publicly, says a counselor at Rogers State Prison whom prisoners called "Cowboy" — identifiable by his cowboy hat, boots and dress shirts — was arrested after staff learned he was bringing contraband drugs ("toochie") and cell phones into the facility. The account is undated; the poster describes a past period of incarceration at Rogers and does not state years. report
Claim: A counselor at Rogers State Prison, known among the prisoner population by the nickname "Cowboy" for his cowboy hat, boots and button-up shirts, was arrested after it was discovered he was introducing contraband — drugs referred to as "toochie"…
August 10, 2026
Heather Hunt wrote on Facebook on August 10, 2026: "My name is Heather Hunt Fountain, and I am the mother of Taylor Anthony Hunt. Taylor was 29 years old. He was a father, a son, a grandson, and a veteran. On September 27, 2024, we were told Taylor had died while incarcerated at Rogers State Prison. But we weren’t told how. For five days, my family knew my son was dead without knowing how he died. Five days later, we were finally told two words: “A hanging.” Not “suicide.” Not “suicide by hanging.” “A hanging.” I didn’t begin with a theory. I began with questions. And almost two years later, I am still asking them. Today is Prisoners’ Justice Day, and Taylor is not the only reason I am speaking out today. In 2024, 332 people died in Georgia’s state correctional facilities. Three hundred and thirty-two human beings. Since 2020, over 1,900 people have died in GDOC custody. And I deliberately say deaths—not homicides—because I don’t want this conversation to depend upon what label the government puts beside someone’s name. Every one of those numbers represents somebody’s child, parent, brother, sister or spouse. And while people were dying at extraordinary levels, GDC actually stopped including the initial manner of death in the monthly mortality reports it had previously published. At the same time, the U.S. Department of Justice concluded that Georgia was failing to protect incarcerated people from widespread violence and harm. I have watch some our Georgia political leaders this month on the campaign trail speaking so eloquently as they are demanding transparency from the federal government and other political entities. So I went to the Georgia State Capitol today, with one question: Why do our leaders demand transparency from Washington while families like mine have to fight their own state government for it? Transparency cannot be something you believe in only when you’re demanding it from somebody else. Transparency begins at home. Let me tell you what that fight has looked like for my family. When we went to Rogers looking for answers, we were told: There were no suicide notes. We were told there was video showing Taylor throwing away his belongings before he killed himself. Later, alleged suicide letters appeared. And our family says those letters are not in Taylor’s handwriting. So independently authenticate them. Tell us where they were found, when they were found, who found them and who handled them. And explain why we were originally told there were no suicide notes. Then came October 9. That […]" report
August 10, 2026
Tyler Ryals, a former GDC officer, wrote on Facebook on August 10, 2026: "My name is Heather Hunt Fountain, and I am the mother of Taylor Anthony Hunt. Taylor was 29 years old. He was a father, a son, a grandson, and a veteran. On September 27, 2024, we were told Taylor had died while incarcerated at Rogers State Prison. But we weren’t told how. For five days, my family knew my son was dead without knowing how he died. Five days later, we were finally told two words: “A hanging.” Not “suicide.” Not “suicide by hanging.” “A hanging.” I didn’t begin with a theory. I began with questions. And almost two years later, I am still asking them. Today is Prisoners’ Justice Day, and Taylor is not the only reason I am speaking out today. In 2024, 332 people died in Georgia’s state correctional facilities. Three hundred and thirty-two human beings. Since 2020, over 1,900 people have died in GDOC custody. And I deliberately say deaths—not homicides—because I don’t want this conversation to depend upon what label the government puts beside someone’s name. Every one of those numbers represents somebody’s child, parent, brother, sister or spouse. And while people were dying at extraordinary levels, GDC actually stopped including the initial manner of death in the monthly mortality reports it had previously published. At the same time, the U.S. Department of Justice concluded that Georgia was failing to protect incarcerated people from widespread violence and harm. I have watch some our Georgia political leaders this month on the campaign trail speaking so eloquently as they are demanding transparency from the federal government and other political entities. So I went to the Georgia State Capitol today, with one question: Why do our leaders demand transparency from Washington while families like mine have to fight their own state government for it? Transparency cannot be something you believe in only when you’re demanding it from somebody else. Transparency begins at home. Let me tell you what that fight has looked like for my family. When we went to Rogers looking for answers, we were told: There were no suicide notes. We were told there was video showing Taylor throwing away his belongings before he killed himself. Later, alleged suicide letters appeared. And our family says those letters are not in Taylor’s handwriting. So independently authenticate them. Tell us where they were found, when they were found, who found them and who handled them. And explain why we were originally told there were no suicide notes. Then came October 9. That […]" report

Former leadership

Officials who previously held leadership roles at this facility.

RoleNameTenureDeaths
this facility / career
WARDEN 1 (facility lead) West, Sandi R2024-06-16 → 2025-12-316 / 6
WARDEN 1 (facility lead) Page, Tracy Glynn2001-01-01 → 2023-12-315 / 6
Deputy Warden of Security (facility deputy) Goettie, Michael L2021-01-01 → present13 / 13
Deputy Warden of Care and Treatment (facility deputy) Finch, Karen Ruth2021-01-01 → 2024-07-319 / 66
Deputy Warden (facility deputy) Forrest, Vikki2026-08-27 → 2026-08-27— / —
Deputy Warden (facility deputy) Irwin, Vikki G2023-11-22 → 2023-11-22— / —
DEPUTY WARDEN (facility deputy) McFarlane, Andrew M2017-01-01 → 2018-12-31— / 53
DEPUTY WARDEN (facility deputy) Clark, Jennifer R2012-01-01 → 2016-12-31— / —
Clinical Chaplain (specialty lead) Wilt, Calvin D2023-11-22 → 2026-08-27— / —

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Location

1978 GA Hwy 147, Reidsville, GA 30453 32.00050, -82.17920

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Aerial View

Aerial view of ROGERS STATE PRISON

Satellite image: Esri World Imagery. Architecture documents what the building was designed to hold. See the system-wide receipts at gps.press/warehouse.

Then and now

Aerial photo of ROGERS STATE PRISON, January 27, 1983
January 27, 1983USGS aerial photo (NHAP NB1NHAP830006080)
Aerial photo of ROGERS STATE PRISON, February 16, 1988
February 16, 1988USGS aerial photo (NAPP 652-179)
Aerial photo of ROGERS STATE PRISON, February 14, 1993
February 14, 1993USGS aerial photo (NAPP 6547-114, 6547-116)
Aerial photo of ROGERS STATE PRISON, February 7, 1999
February 7, 1999USGS aerial photo (NAPP 11168-105, 11168-107)
Aerial photo of ROGERS STATE PRISON, Today
TodayEsri World Imagery

Each photo shows the same 1.2 km square, north up, so buildings line up from one year to the next. The older photos are U.S. Geological Survey aerial photographs. The photos from 1988 and earlier were taken on film and lined up with the later ones by their roads, so their positions are approximate. The early-1980s photos were taken from very high up and are less sharp. Select a photo to see it full size.