Bobbitt, Trevonza L

Tenure Summary

Trevonza L. Bobbitt appears in Georgia Department of Corrections personnel records from 2015, when state salary data lists the position "Correction Administration" at $51,310.09. He was classified as a deputy warden in 2016–2017, then moved into the warden ranks — Warden 2 in 2018–2019 and Warden 3 from 2020 onward — with pay rising from $71,648.40 in 2018 to a peak of $111,276.61 in 2023. The only leadership posting in these records tied to a specific facility is Calhoun State Prison, where he served as Warden from Jan. 1, 2023 to Dec. 15, 2024. His earlier warden-tier years carry no facility assignment in the data.

Twelve deaths are attributed to Bobbitt's facility-leadership tenure, all of them at Calhoun State Prison, per GPS's compilation of GDC death records. That period also overlaps a $3.25 million state liability settlement tied to a 2023 Calhoun death, a pending federal lawsuit naming the Department, and a September 2024 Atlanta Journal-Constitution investigation into prisoner-run drug networks operating from inside the facility. No news reports in the records name Bobbitt directly.

What happened on their watch

Calhoun State Prison — Warden, Jan. 1, 2023 to Dec. 15, 2024. All 12 deaths attributed to Bobbitt's leadership fall in this posting. The decedents in the records range from 24 to 63 years old: Reginald Jerome Jacobs Jr. (24, died Feb. 6, 2023), Sergio Andres Lopez-Herrera (41, July 15, 2023), Paul Russell Gordon (63, Nov. 13, 2023), Randy Dixon (63, Nov. 23, 2023), Martel Orlando Dorsey (32, Nov. 24, 2023), Kenneth Scott Piper (37, May 4, 2024), Tyler Jackson Blackwell (31, July 13, 2024), Gonzalo Colmenero-Ayala (54, July 17, 2024), Terry Paul Smith (62, July 20, 2024), William Dutton Maddox (62, Aug. 1, 2024), Willie Andrew Willis (27, Oct. 21, 2024) and Kent Tyrik Robinson (26, Nov. 5, 2024).

Three of those deaths are described in incident accounts as inmate-on-inmate violence: Dorsey, who per a GPS intel event was stabbed by other prisoners on Oct. 4, 2023, with GDC telling a TV station that witnesses saw him chased out of a dorm (the death record lists him as 32 and the incident account as 34); Piper, killed in an inmate-to-inmate assault on May 4, 2024 "per incident report data"; and Colmenero-Ayala, who died July 17, 2024 following an inmate-to-inmate assault, also per incident report data. Death certificates for Piper and Colmenero had not been obtained at the time of those entries. A separate intel event dated Jan. 1, 2023 records the death of an unnamed 24-year-old at Calhoun from dehydration with renal failure after staff cut off his food and water following an incident in which he threw water through his cell door flap.

Federal records tie a $3.25 million State of Georgia liability payout to Calhoun State Prison for a 2023 incident, naming "Reginald Jacobs Sr., for the Estate of Reginald Jacobs Jr."; the settlement entry is dated Feb. 6, 2023, the same date as the death record for Reginald Jerome Jacobs Jr. The settlement source is the Georgia Department of Administrative Services Risk Management settlement ledger obtained through open records.

On Sept. 5, 2024, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution published an investigation into drug trafficking run from inside Georgia prisons. An allegation logged against Calhoun in that reporting states that inmate Edwin Murillo ordered the torture, murder and dismemberment of a woman after a business relationship collapsed and he stopped trusting her. Sentencing events logged the same day include Murillo (300 months, brokered meth sales in northeast Georgia counties), Irvin Falcon (260 months for directing meth deliveries via contraband cellphone), Jonathan Alvin Pope (20 years; prosecutors said prisoners led a ring in at least seven counties going back to 2018, with 13 indicted), and Pedro Barragan Valencia (400 months; at least 250 kilograms of meth brokered from prison).

Litigation

• Jacobs v. Georgia Department of Corrections, No. 4:25-cv-00111 (N.D. Ga., GAMD), filed March 26, 2025 — pending. Bobbitt is listed as a defendant.
• Stanley v. Securus Technologies LLC, No. 6:23-cv-00018 (S.D. Ga., GASD), filed March 9, 2023 — pending.
• Bonner v. Ward, No. 6:23-cv-00014 (S.D. Ga.), filed Feb. 24, 2023 — terminated Aug. 16, 2024.
• Martin v. Holt, No. 5:23-cv-00004 (M.D. Ga., GAMD), filed Jan. 4, 2023 — pending.
• Diaz v. Ward, No. 6:22-cv-00080 (S.D. Ga.), filed Nov. 8, 2022 — terminated Sept. 27, 2023.
• Canning v. Jackson, No. 6:22-cv-00038 (S.D. Ga.), filed May 25, 2022 — terminated Nov. 2, 2023.
• Middleton v. Ward, No. 5:21-cv-00334 (M.D. Ga.), filed Sept. 10, 2021 — terminated March 9, 2022.
• Daker v. Bryson, No. 5:16-cv-00538 (M.D. Ga.), filed Dec. 7, 2016 — terminated June 9, 2017.
• Daker v. Bryson, No. 5:15-cv-00088 (M.D. Ga.), filed March 16, 2015 — terminated July 19, 2018.

Sources

• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — Sept. 5, 2024 investigation into prisoner-run drug trafficking networks, including the allegation concerning Edwin Murillo at Calhoun State Prison
• Georgia Department of Administrative Services, Risk Management settlement ledger (open records) — $3.25 million Calhoun State Prison settlement, Reginald Jacobs Sr. for the Estate of Reginald Jacobs Jr.
• CourtListener dockets for the nine cases listed above
• GDC personnel and salary records (2015–2025) underpinning the position history
• GPS incident report data and intel events — the Calhoun deaths of Dorsey, Piper and Colmenero-Ayala, and the Jan. 1, 2023 dehydration death

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.