Bobbitt, Trevonza L

Tenure Summary

What happened on their watch

For Jacobs, the Calhoun County death certificate lists manner natural and cause dehydration with renal failure. A lawsuit alleges a GDC employee disabled the water supply to his cell; the AJC reported allegations that staff cut off food and water as retaliation. Coroner records obtained by GPS list Dorsey’s death as homicide by stabbing and Colmenero-Ayala’s as homicide by multiple blunt force injuries and neck compressions. The AJC investigation describes Piper’s death as an inmate-to-inmate assault murder, and WALB reported Willis died from blunt force trauma after a balcony fall and neck stab, with his family alleging an airlift delay of nearly an hour. Seven of the 12 deaths are logged under cause-category 6, a category not further described in the extract.

Reported DOJ findings in the file, per the AJC and WALB, allege GDC underreported homicides, forwarded only a small fraction of assault and weapon incidents for investigation, and suffered severe staff shortages. At Calhoun specifically, DOJ-related reporting alleges housing-classification failures contributed to a 2022 homicide before Bobbitt’s listed posting, and that an incarcerated person died of dehydration in 2023 after staff shut off water and withheld meals — matching the Jacobs death record. The file also includes AJC reporting on dismissed Calhoun drug-smuggling cases involving untested evidence, with arrests beginning before the listed Calhoun posting.

Litigation

• Jacobs v. Georgia Department of Corrections, 4:25-cv-00111 (M.D. Ga.), filed 2025-03-26; extract lists pending, death-record notes state settlement noticed 2025-08-15 and dismissal 2025-12-16.
• Stanley v. Securus Technologies Llc, 6:23-cv-00018 (S.D. Ga.), filed 2023-03-09; pending.
• Bonner v. Ward, 6:23-cv-00014 (S.D. Ga.), filed 2023-02-24; terminated 2024-08-16.
• Martin v. Holt, 5:23-cv-00004 (M.D. Ga.), filed 2023-01-04; pending.
• Diaz v. Ward, 6:22-cv-00080 (S.D. Ga.), filed 2022-11-08; terminated 2023-09-27.
• Canning v. Jackson, 6:22-cv-00038 (S.D. Ga.), filed 2022-05-25; terminated 2023-11-02.
• Middleton v. Ward, 5:21-cv-00334 (M.D. Ga.), filed 2021-09-10; terminated 2022-03-09.
• Daker v. Bryson, 5:16-cv-00538 (M.D. Ga.), filed 2016-12-07; terminated 2017-06-09.
• Daker v. Bryson, 5:15-cv-00088 (M.D. Ga.), filed 2015-03-16; terminated 2018-07-19.

Sources

• GPS records / GDC position and salary data.
• Calhoun County death certificates obtained via GPS open-records request, including 2023GA000063933, 2023GA000096069, and 2024GA000095626.
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — homicide investigation, DOJ findings, drug-smuggling cases.
• WALB — Willis family allegations and DOJ findings.
• GA DOAS Risk Management settlement ledger.
• U.S. Department of Justice investigation findings as reported by AJC/WALB.
• Court records via CourtListener for the listed litigation matters.

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.