WEST CENTRAL INTEGRATED TREATMENT FACILITY
Facility Information
- Address
- 1070 County Farm Road, Zebulon, GA 30295
- Mailing Address
- P.O. Box 589, Zebulon, GA 30295
- County
- Pike County
- Operator
- GDC (Georgia Dept. of Corrections)
- Warden
- Lesley Medlock
- Phone
- (770) 567-0531
- Fax
- (770) 567-0257
- Staff
- Assistant Superintendent: Gloria Davis
- Chief of Security: Lt. Kinsey Jones
- Business Office: Jeanean Brooks
About
West Central Integrated Treatment Facility (WCITF) is a Georgia Department of Corrections facility operating within a system that GPS independently tracks as having recorded 1,795 deaths statewide since 2020, with cause-of-death classifications derived entirely from GPS's own investigative reporting rather than any GDC disclosure. Limited source material specific to WCITF is currently available in the GPS database, and this page will be updated as facility-specific incident reporting, lawsuits, and firsthand accounts are obtained. What is documented reflects the broader GDC crisis context within which all Georgia state prisons operate.
Leadership & Accountability (as of 2025 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CORRECTIONAL SUPERINTENDENT (facility lead) | Medlock, Lesley | 2025-01-01 | — / — |
Key Facts
- 1,795 Total deaths tracked by GPS across GDC system since 2020 — cause of death not reported by GDC; all classifications are GPS independent findings
- 95 Deaths recorded statewide by GPS in the first four months of 2026 alone, including 27 confirmed homicides
- ~$20M Verified total paid by Georgia in settlements for prisoner deaths, neglect, and injuries since 2018
- 1,243 GDC inmates system-wide with poorly controlled health conditions as of May 2026 — relevant given WCITF's treatment designation
- 2,481 Incarcerated people stuck in county jails awaiting GDC transfer as of May 1, 2026, reflecting ongoing overcrowding pressure across all facilities
By the Numbers
- 97 Deaths in 2026 (GPS tracked)
- 29 Confirmed Homicides in 2026
- 6 Terminally Ill Inmates
- 45 In Mental Health Crisis
- 4,771 Drug Offenders (8.93%)
- 8,108 In Private Prisons
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”
Facility Overview
West Central Integrated Treatment Facility is a Georgia Department of Corrections institution operating within GDC's network of state prisons. As the name suggests, the facility carries an 'integrated treatment' designation, indicating a stated mission oriented toward behavioral health, mental health programming, or substance use treatment — though GPS has not yet independently verified the scope, quality, or actual delivery of those services at this location.
The facility operates within the broader GDC system, which as of May 1, 2026, housed 52,912 people in state custody, with an additional 2,481 incarcerated individuals sitting in county jails awaiting transfer into GDC facilities. The total GDC population has grown by approximately 201 people over the 12-week period tracked from February through May 2026, reflecting continued system-wide overcrowding pressure that affects conditions at every facility, including WCITF.
GPS's current source base for WCITF-specific incidents, staffing data, and internal conditions remains limited. This page is an active intelligence stub and will be expanded as firsthand accounts, public records, and investigative reporting specific to this facility are obtained.
Statewide Mortality Context
GPS independently tracks deaths across the Georgia Department of Corrections system. The GDC does not publicly release cause-of-death information, and all classifications in the GPS database — homicide, suicide, natural causes, overdose, or unknown/pending — are derived from independent investigation, news reporting, family accounts, and public records. The GDC's institutional opacity means that a significant portion of deaths remain classified as 'Unknown/Pending' in the GPS database, not because those deaths were peaceful or explained, but because GPS has not yet been able to independently confirm cause.
Across the GDC system, GPS has recorded 1,795 deaths since 2020. The annual totals reflect a system in sustained crisis: 293 deaths in 2020, 257 in 2021, 254 in 2022, 262 in 2023, 333 in 2024 — the highest single-year total in the GPS database — and 301 in 2025. As of May 5, 2026, GPS has already recorded 95 deaths in the first four months of the year alone, including 27 confirmed homicides. The true homicide count is significantly higher than GPS's confirmed figures; the 'unknown/pending' category in every year contains deaths whose circumstances GPS has not yet been able to independently establish.
Improvements in cause-of-death classification visible in more recent years — particularly 2025 and 2026 — reflect GPS's expanding investigative capacity and reporting relationships, not any increase in transparency from the GDC. WCITF, as a facility within this system, operates in an environment where the baseline institutional response to death is concealment rather than accountability. Any deaths occurring at WCITF are subject to the same documentation gaps that define GDC mortality reporting system-wide.
Population Health and Vulnerability
The GDC's own monthly demographic data, as of May 1, 2026, documents the scale of health vulnerability across the system. System-wide, 1,243 incarcerated people are classified as having 'poorly controlled health conditions,' 45 are in active mental health crisis, and 6 have terminal illnesses. These figures represent only those conditions formally classified within GDC's own administrative tracking — the actual population of people with serious, undertreated medical and psychiatric needs is almost certainly larger.
For a facility with an 'integrated treatment' designation like WCITF, the system-wide health data is directly relevant. Treatment-designated facilities typically receive populations with elevated mental health and substance use needs, meaning the proportion of vulnerable individuals at WCITF may exceed system-wide averages. GPS has not yet obtained facility-specific population or health data for WCITF and will update this section as that information becomes available.
The broader GDC population skews toward older age — the system-wide average age is 40.99 years as of May 2026 — and is 60.38% Black, 34.00% White, and 5.15% Hispanic. Approximately 56.39% of the incarcerated population statewide are classified as violent offenders, and 8.93% as drug offenders.
Legal Accountability and Settlement Context
GPS has verified that the state of Georgia has paid nearly $20 million since 2018 to settle claims involving death or injury to state prisoners. This figure, confirmed through news reporting, spans six years of GDC-related deaths, neglect, and injuries across the system. The settlements represent a fraction of the true cost of institutional failure — both in human terms and in legal liability that has gone unlitigated or settled confidentially.
GPS has not yet identified specific lawsuits, verdicts, or settlements directly naming West Central Integrated Treatment Facility or incidents occurring within its walls. This absence of confirmed WCITF-specific legal records reflects the current limits of GPS's source base for this facility, not a determination that no such legal actions exist. GPS actively seeks documentation of any litigation, civil rights complaints, or administrative grievances involving WCITF staff, conditions, or deaths.
The statewide settlement pattern — millions paid out while GDC continues to resist systemic reform — illustrates the accountability environment in which WCITF operates. Facilities across the GDC system have generated civil rights claims involving medical neglect, failure to protect, and wrongful death. WCITF's treatment designation does not insulate it from those patterns; in some cases, treatment-designated facilities have been the sites of serious abuse and neglect of medically and psychiatrically vulnerable people.
Investigative Gaps and Reporting Needs
GPS's current intelligence file on West Central Integrated Treatment Facility is limited. The two source articles in the GPS database at the time of this page's publication are reference documents — the GDC Facilities Directory with GPS-provided statistics and the GDC Inmate Handbook — rather than incident-specific reporting. No extracted events, named incidents, confirmed deaths at this specific facility, or named individuals have yet been documented in the GPS system for WCITF.
Key intelligence priorities for this facility include: confirmation of current population and capacity figures; documentation of staffing levels and vacancies; firsthand accounts from incarcerated people or their families regarding conditions, programming delivery, and access to medical and mental health care; identification of any deaths occurring at WCITF and their circumstances; and review of any grievances, lawsuits, or regulatory findings involving the facility.
If you or someone you know has been incarcerated at West Central Integrated Treatment Facility, or if you are a family member, attorney, or advocate with information about conditions or incidents at this facility, GPS encourages you to make contact. Facility-specific intelligence is essential to holding individual institutions — not just the GDC as a whole — accountable for what happens inside their walls.
Source Articles (2)
Former leadership
Officials who previously held leadership roles at this facility.
| Role | Name | Tenure | Deaths this facility / career |
|---|---|---|---|
| Warden (West Central Integrated Treatment Facility) (facility lead) | Medlock, Lesley | 2024-01-01 → present | — / — |
| CORRECTIONAL ASST. SUPT (facility deputy) | Fanning, Jacqueline | 2022-01-01 → 2022-12-31 | — / 4 |
| Assistant Superintendent (facility deputy) | Samuel, Chanel Andrea | 2020-01-01 → 2020-12-31 | — / 1 |