Agbaosi, Mark

Tenure Summary

Mark Agbaosi entered Georgia Department of Corrections service as a correctional officer at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison (GDCP) in 2010, returned in 2015, and rose steadily: sergeant (2016), lieutenant (2017), captain (2018–2021), unit manager (2022), deputy warden at GDCP (2023–2024), and warden at Dooly State Prison from early 2025, with a salary of $125,173.69 recorded for 2025. GPS lists him as active.

Per GPS records, 34 deaths are attributed to facilities during his leadership tenures — 24 at GDCP and 10 at Dooly State Prison (`deaths_by_facility`). Both postings overlap documented systemic conditions: a Jan. 31, 2026 report records GDCP holding 4,540 people in a facility designed for 800 (568% of design capacity), and Dooly holding 1,593 in a facility designed for 500 with roughly 50% statewide correctional officer vacancies. Two federal suits in the Middle District of Georgia name him as a defendant; both remain pending.

What happened on their watch

Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison — Deputy Warden (2023–2024). GPS attributes 24 deaths to GDCP during Agbaosi's deputy-warden years. The records sample runs from Dec. 26, 2023 (Al Pacino Bryant, 37) to Dec. 15, 2024 (John Irvin Tidd Jr., 36), with decedents aged 27 to 76; most carry GPS cause category 6 (unknown/pending). Eight deaths are coded as suicides. GBI Medical Examiner productions obtained by GPS open-records requests confirm hanging as cause and suicide as manner for Rodriquez Garrett (30), Christopher Burnett (37), and Timothy Holbrook (34). Joshua Holliday (43, Oct. 21, 2024) has the fullest record: a GBI autopsy certified ligature hanging, manner suicide, toxicology positive for methamphetamine; GPS records note a witness account of an assault that the autopsy "neither confirms nor excludes," and Butts County E-911 CAD/radio recordings timestamped 10-21-24 that corroborate the date. John Gilstrap (45) was certified by GBI as atherosclerotic coronary artery disease, natural.

AJC reporting cited in GPS intel from this period described near-total vandalization and infrastructure failure at GDCP, a newly arrived inmate found within days with a shank and a contraband phone, an officer who admitted selling shakedown information to a death-row inmate, 35 cellphones seized from one prisoner, and a drone-delivery contraband conspiracy for which federal sentences were later announced. The AJC also reported an allegation that Brandon Trace Burrell (died Jan. 28, 2024) was assaulted by another inmate while under the influence of methamphetamine and suffered numerous stab wounds.

Dooly State Prison — Warden (2025–present). Ten deaths are attributed to Dooly during his tenure as warden. They include Darrow Brown (58, Nov. 7, 2025), whose death a GPS user report attributes to a Crips gang member who killed him "on the walk" while he was escorted by an officer; the report describes Brown as unaffiliated. Three deaths are coded as overdose: Timothy Glenn Williams (56, Apr. 17, 2025), Dexter Levy (32, Nov. 16, 2025 — confirmed by a GBI complete autopsy and recorded as manner accident), and Samuel Blackmon (40, Jan. 19, 2026). Six are coded unknown/pending — Paul Counts (60), Willie Mote (70), Marshall Crews (69), Orlando Glass (49), Martez Terry (42), and Jerry Jerome Smith (reported Aug. 21, 2026 by a GPS inside source whom GPS records instruct must remain protected). GDC's public lookup still listed Smith as active two days later, and GPS records state the cause is not established pending the Dooly County coroner.

GPS intel from the same period logs repeated gang-related violence at Dooly: five inmates injured (Mar. 23, 2026), six injured with three airlifted (Apr. 1, 2026), nine injured (May 22, 2026) in a fight that preceded a statewide GDC lockdown and canceled Memorial Day visitation at four prisons, and a three-inmate altercation (June 7, 2026). Telegram-relayed reports describe stabbings in F2 and mass stabbings in D building in April 2026. The AJC records a coroner's allegation that Carlos Omar Soldiew-Acosta may have been dead more than 24 hours before his body was found at Dooly, and alleges James Yarbrough died of ketoacidosis after months of uncontrolled diabetes in a case alleging medical malpractice; Georgia Public Broadcasting reported Cody Bailey's allegation that Dooly medical staff put his father's treatment "on the back burner," contributing to a death from sepsis. Contraband cases include a former GDC cadet sentenced for smuggling 640 grams of methamphetamine into Dooly and an inmate charged with running a phone-fraud scheme from inside who claimed staff were aware.

Litigation

• Miller v. Holt, No. 5:25-cv-00356 (M.D. Ga.), filed Aug. 25, 2025 — pending. Filed during his Dooly warden tenure; listed in GPS records among cases naming him as a defendant.
• Thrift v. Caldwell, No. 5:24-cv-00002 (M.D. Ga.), filed Jan. 2, 2024 — pending. Filed while he was deputy warden at GDCP.

The input does not describe the claims or the conduct alleged against him in either case.

Sources

• GPS personnel, mortality, and `deaths_by_facility` records; GPS case submissions and Telegram-relayed incident reports (Dooly, 2026)
• GBI Medical Examiner productions obtained via GPS open-records requests (cause findings for Garrett, Burnett, Holbrook, Holliday, Levy; Gilstrap)
• Butts County E-911 records (CAD/radio, Oct. 21, 2024)
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — Georgia prison homicide list and prison-failures/infrastructure reporting (GDCP and Dooly)
• Georgia Public Broadcasting — Bailey medical-neglect allegation (Dooly)
• WGXA, WALB, 13WMAZ, Wesh.com, News-journalonline.com — Dooly incidents, contraband and fraud prosecutions
• CourtListener dockets 71195536 (Miller v. Holt) and 68131195 (Thrift v. Caldwell)

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Sep 13, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.