Benton, Brooks L

Tenure Summary

Brooks L. Benton's recorded Georgia Department of Corrections career runs from 2015 through 2023, with no facility assignment listed in the records reviewed. He appears first in a correction administration post in 2015 on the staff tier, then moves into facility-leadership titles: Warden 1 across 2016–2017 and Warden 3 across 2018–2023. His listed salary rose from $69,864 in 2015 to a peak of $105,936.82 in 2022, then drops to $59,218.48 for 2023, his last year in the records.

Across all of those leadership postings, GPS attributes zero deaths to his tenure — the total deaths figure and the per-facility breakdown are both empty. No intel reports, intel events, or news mentions naming him fall inside those dates. The accountability record that does exist is litigation: six federal civil cases in which Benton is listed as a defendant, filed between December 2020 and December 2023, all in Georgia's Southern or Middle District courts.

What happened on their watch

Per GPS records, no deaths are attributed to any facility-leadership tenure held by Benton, and no facility is identified for the Warden 1 or Warden 3 postings, so no facility-level death pattern can be described. The only dated conduct the records attach to his watch is the set of lawsuits below.

• 2015 — Correction Administration (staff tier). Salary listed at $69,864. No facility recorded. Not a leadership posting and not covered by death attribution.
• 2016–2017 — Warden 1 (facility lead). Salaries listed at $77,114 and $80,059.92. No facility recorded; zero deaths attributed.
• 2018–2023 — Warden 3 (facility lead). Salaries from $94,539.92 (2018) to $105,936.82 (2022), then $59,218.48 (2023). No facility recorded; zero deaths attributed. No intel reports or events at a facility are listed as falling within these dates.

Litigation

All six matters are listed with Benton as a defendant. Court records show termination status and, where given, closure dates; none list a monetary amount.

• Diamond v. Ward, No. 5:20-cv-00453, U.S. District Court, Middle District of Georgia — filed Dec. 1, 2020; terminated Jan. 23, 2023.
• Chambers v. Benton, No. 4:21-cv-00002, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Georgia — filed Jan. 5, 2021; terminated Sept. 2, 2025.
• Edmond v. Benton, No. 4:21-cv-00051, S.D. Ga. — filed Feb. 18, 2021; terminated July 29, 2022.
• Ivester v. Georgia Department of Corrections, No. 4:21-cv-00238, S.D. Ga. — filed Aug. 23, 2021; still pending as of the records.
• Koffler v. Brown, No. 4:21-cv-00257, S.D. Ga. — filed Sept. 13, 2021; terminated July 9, 2024.
• Hagans v. Ward, No. 4:23-cv-00352, S.D. Ga. — filed Dec. 14, 2023; terminated July 16, 2025.

Sources

• CourtListener federal dockets — Southern District of Georgia (4:21-cv-00002, 4:21-cv-00051, 4:21-cv-00238, 4:21-cv-00257, 4:23-cv-00352) and Middle District of Georgia (5:20-cv-00453).
• Georgia Prisoners' Speak personnel and salary records for Brooks L. Benton, 2015–2023 (positions and pay figures; zero deaths attributed to leadership tenures).

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Sep 23, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.