Blair, Sherryl F

Tenure Summary

Sherryl F. Blair’s Georgia Department of Corrections record begins with a 2007 correctional officer post at Burruss Correctional Training Center, followed by financial and administrative roles, then moves into facility leadership in 2019 as deputy warden at Dodge State Prison. Blair later held deputy warden titles in 2020 through 2022 — with the facility field not consistently listed in GPS personnel records — and was deputy warden at McEver Probation Detention Center during 2023. In 2024, Blair became superintendent at McEver, a role reflected in GPS records through 2025 and a 2026 entry.

GPS records attribute one death to a facility-leader tenure held by Blair: Anthony Golson, who died at McEver Probation Detention Center on October 7, 2023, while Blair was listed as deputy warden there. GPS records show no lawsuits naming Blair as a defendant, and no news mentions appear in the provided record.

What happened on their watch

Burruss Correctional Training Center
Blair held staff-tier positions at Burruss C.T.C. in 2007, 2016, and 2018. No deaths are attributed to these tenures in GPS records.

Dodge State Prison
Blair was deputy warden at Dodge State Prison during 2019. GPS records do not attribute any Dodge State Prison deaths to Blair’s leadership count. The facility intel file includes two deaths at Dodge State Prison in 2022: Douglas Anthony Forts, 57, who died June 2, 2022, from acute traumatic amputation of a finger sustained during a fight, and Hezekiah Sha’Nard Cuyler, 21, who died September 14, 2022, from blunt force trauma to the head. Blair held a deputy warden title in 2022, but the facility assignment is blank in the personnel records provided, so GPS does not count those Dodge deaths in Blair’s attributed total. Separately, a Georgia Department of Administrative Services risk management settlement ledger records a $16,000 payout to Kimyania Smith dated May 26, 2025, tied to a 2025 Dodge State Prison incident; by that date GPS records place Blair at McEver Probation Detention Center, not Dodge.

McEver Probation Detention Center
During Blair’s 2023 deputy warden tenure at McEver Probation Detention Center, Anthony Golson, 46, died on October 7, 2023. GPS records list his cause category as 6 and do not provide a further medical description in the source data. No intel reports or lawsuit records specific to Blair at McEver appear in the provided material. Blair later became superintendent at McEver beginning in 2024, and no additional deaths are attributed to that superintendent tenure in GPS records.

Sources

• GPS personnel and incident records for Sherryl F. Blair — positions, attributed death count, and tenure data
• GPS facility intel events — Dodge State Prison 2022 deaths and McEver Probation Detention Center 2023 death
• Georgia Department of Administrative Services Risk Management settlement ledger (Open Records) — 2025 Dodge State Prison settlement

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Aug 30, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.