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Bracewell, Sheila
Status: active
Profile written August 30, 2026
This profile reflects positional accountability — this individual held the leadership roles shown during the dates shown, during which the listed deaths or lawsuits occurred. Inclusion does not constitute a legal finding of personal culpability for any specific incident.
Tenure Summary
Sheila Bracewell is listed as active in GPS personnel records. She held a CORRECTION ADMINISTRATION staff post in 2015 without a listed facility, then served as Deputy Warden at Whitworth Women’s Facility in annual records from Jan. 1, 2016 through Dec. 31, 2025. The structured records also include one-day Deputy Warden entries at Whitworth dated Nov. 22, 2023 and Aug. 27, 2026. During her facility-deputy tenure at Whitworth, GPS records attribute one death to the facility. No lawsuits naming Bracewell as a defendant, no facility intel reports, and no news mentions appear in the provided records.
What happened on their watch
Correction administration, 2015
Bracewell held a CORRECTION ADMINISTRATION post in 2015 with no facility listed. GPS records attribute no deaths to that posting.
Whitworth Women’s Facility — Deputy Warden, 2016–2025
GPS records attribute one death at Whitworth Women’s Facility during Bracewell’s tenure: Rhianna Woods, with an incident date of Jan. 10, 2025, when Bracewell was listed as Deputy Warden. Woods’s age at death is not listed. According to GPS records, the official GDC January 2025 mortality data lists the death as “Acute Respiratory Failure/ Possible Drug Overdose.” The DeKalb County Medical Examiner case 25-0059, cited in the GPS record, states the manner was accident (overdose) and the cause was acute drug (benzodiazepine) intoxication.
GPS records flag a facility discrepancy: the DeKalb County Medical Examiner report places Woods at Metro Reentry Facility, 1301 Constitution Road, DeKalb County, where she reportedly ingested the substance, and the death was investigated under DeKalb County jurisdiction. The GPS facility-of-record remains Whitworth Women’s Facility, and the record says the facility ID was left unchanged pending an administrative decision. GPS records also include an administrative hypothesis that GDC may record a technical or administrative transfer to Metro when an inmate is near death or sent to an Atlanta-area hospital; the note describes this as a recordkeeping hypothesis, not an established finding.
No lawsuits against Bracewell, no intel reports at Whitworth, and no news mentions are documented in the provided records for this period.
Sources
- GPS personnel records — posting history and salaries for Sheila Bracewell
- GPS mortality records — deaths_by_facility and decedent record for Rhianna Woods
- Official GDC January 2025 mortality data, as captured in GPS records
- DeKalb County Medical Examiner case 25-0059, cited in GPS records
Positions Held
| Title | Facility | Tenure |
|---|---|---|
| Deputy Warden | WHITWORTH WOMEN’S FACILITY | 2026-08-27 → present |
| DEPUTY WARDEN | WHITWORTH WOMEN’S FACILITY | 2016-01-01 → present |
| Deputy Warden | WHITWORTH WOMEN’S FACILITY | 2023-11-22 → 2023-11-22 |
| CORRECTION ADMINISTRATION | 2015-01-01 → 2015-12-31 |
Deaths attributed during tenure
1 people died at facilities under Bracewell, Sheila's leadership.
| Date | Decedent | Age | Facility | Role at time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-01-10 | Rhianna Woods | — | WHITWORTH WOMEN’S FACILITY | DEPUTY WARDEN |
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