Bobbitt, Trevonza L

Tenure Summary

GPS records show Trevonza L. Bobbitt rising through Georgia Department of Corrections custody ranks: a correction administration post in 2015, deputy warden in 2016 and 2017, Warden 2 in 2018 and 2019, and Warden 3 across 2020 through 2023. From January 2023 until December 15, 2024, GPS's records place him as Warden at Calhoun State Prison; a single-day Warden 3 entry at Calhoun dated November 22, 2023 also appears. The records list him as active.

Twelve deaths are attributed to his leadership tenure, every one of them at Calhoun State Prison — four recorded as homicides, one as natural/medical, one as deliberate indifference, and six whose cause GPS's registry still lists as unknown or pending. A $3,250,000 state liability settlement is tied to Calhoun, and a federal lawsuit over the 2023 death of Reginald Jacobs Jr. remains pending.

What happened on their watch

Warden 2 (2018–2019) and Warden 3 (2020–2023; salary years 2024–2025), no facility listed. GPS's records give these leadership titles and dates without a facility assignment. No deaths are attributed to them; the 12 attributed deaths in the registry all fall at Calhoun State Prison.

Warden, Calhoun State Prison (January 2023 – December 15, 2024). All 12 deaths attributed during Bobbitt's leadership tenure occurred here, each recorded with Warden as the role held on the date of death.

• Reginald Jerome Jr Jacobs died February 6, 2023, at Calhoun State Prison, age 24; GPS's registry lists the cause as Deliberate Indifference.
• Sergio Andres Lopez-Herrera died July 15, 2023, at Calhoun State Prison, age 41; the registry lists Natural/Medical.
• Paul Russell Gordon died November 13, 2023, at Calhoun State Prison, age 63; cause Unknown/Pending.
• Randy Dixon died November 23, 2023, at Calhoun State Prison, age 63; cause Unknown/Pending.
• Martel Orlando Dorsey died November 24, 2023, at Calhoun State Prison, age 32; the registry lists Homicide.
• Kenneth Scott Piper died May 4, 2024, at Calhoun State Prison, age 37; Homicide.
• Tyler Jackson Blackwell died July 13, 2024, at Calhoun State Prison, age 31; cause Unknown/Pending.
• Gonzalo Colmenero-Ayala died July 17, 2024, at Calhoun State Prison, age 54; Homicide.
• Terry Paul Smith died July 20, 2024, at Calhoun State Prison, age 62; cause Unknown/Pending.
• William Dutton Maddox died August 1, 2024, at Calhoun State Prison, age 62; cause Unknown/Pending.
• Willie Andrew Willis died October 21, 2024, at Calhoun State Prison, age 27; Homicide.
• Kent Tyrik Robinson died November 5, 2024, at Calhoun State Prison, age 26; cause Unknown/Pending.

The deaths cluster: three between November 13 and November 24, 2023; three between July 13 and July 20, 2024; two more within a month in late 2024. Ages run from 24 to 63. Per incident report data, Colmenero (July 17, 2024) and Piper (May 4, 2024) died following inmate-to-inmate assaults, with death certificates not yet obtained at the time of the reports. An intel record describes Dorsey as stabbed by other prisoners and says GDC told a TV station that several witnesses saw him run out of a dorm as he was chased. A separate record dated January 1, 2023 describes a 24-year-old prisoner at Calhoun who died of 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; the record does not name the prisoner.

All intel items dated inside Bobbitt's Calhoun tenure carry Warden as his role. An Atlanta Journal-Constitution investigation published September 5, 2024 documented contraband-cellphone drug operations run from the prison: Irvin Falcon, 23 and serving a burglary sentence, directed methamphetamine deliveries in the Fitzgerald area and drew 260 months with six others convicted; Edwin Murillo brokered major meth sales across several northeast Georgia counties, was sentenced to 300 months in April 2019, and later received life for directing a 2021 torture and murder; Jonathan Alvin Pope led a ring operating in at least seven counties as far back as 2018, with 13 others indicted, seven of them incarcerated, and was sentenced to 20 years; Pedro Barragan Valencia brokered at least 250 kilograms of meth and received 400 months in December 2023. In a separate AJC report dated September 5, 2024, the paper alleged — a claim made by the publication, not an adjudicated finding — that Murillo ordered the torture, murder and dismemberment of a woman after their business relationship collapsed.

Litigation

Court records list Bobbitt as a defendant in the following. No outcome amounts are recorded in any of them.

• Jacobs v. Georgia Department of Corrections, 4:25-cv-00111, court listed as GAMD, filed March 26, 2025 — pending.
• Stanley v. Securus Technologies Llc, 6:23-cv-00018, GASD, filed March 9, 2023 — pending.
• Bonner v. Ward, 6:23-cv-00014, GASD, filed February 24, 2023 — terminated August 16, 2024.
• Martin v. Holt, 5:23-cv-00004, GAMD, filed January 4, 2023 — pending.
• Diaz v. Ward, 6:22-cv-00080, GASD, filed November 8, 2022 — terminated September 27, 2023.
• Canning v. Jackson, 6:22-cv-00038, GASD, filed May 25, 2022 — terminated November 2, 2023.
• Middleton v. Ward, 5:21-cv-00334, GAMD, filed September 10, 2021 — terminated March 9, 2022.
• Daker v. Bryson, 5:16-cv-00538, GAMD, filed December 7, 2016 — terminated June 9, 2017.
• Daker v. Bryson, 5:15-cv-00088, GAMD, filed March 16, 2015 — terminated July 19, 2018.

Separately, the GA DOAS Risk Management settlement ledger (obtained via open records) records a $3,250,000 state liability payout tied to Calhoun State Prison and a 2023 incident, paid to Reginald Jacobs Sr. for the Estate of Reginald Jacobs Jr.

Sources

• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — "Locked Up But Not Stopped: Georgia Prisoners Run Drug Trafficking Networks," September 5, 2024 (contraband-cellphone operations at Calhoun State Prison; allegation concerning Edwin Murillo)
• GA DOAS Risk Management settlement ledger (open records) — $3,250,000 payout tied to Calhoun State Prison, 2023 incident
• CourtListener dockets — the nine cases above
• GDC incident report data — inmate-to-inmate assault deaths, Calhoun State Prison, 2024
• GPS death registry — 12 deaths recorded during Bobbitt's Warden tenure at Calhoun State Prison

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Oct 11, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.