Bracewell, Sheila

Tenure Summary

Sheila Bracewell's documented career in Georgia's prison system begins in 2015 in a Correction Administration post with no facility attached, at a listed salary of $42,817.70. From 2016 forward she is listed as Deputy Warden at Whitworth Women's Facility, a role she held continuously through 2025 and which reappears in single-date records in November 2023 and August 2026. Her listed salary in that role rose from $44,440.08 in 2016 to $72,089.62 in 2025. GPS lists her status as active; no other status is recorded with a source.

Across her leadership tenure at Whitworth, GPS attributes one death: that of Rhianna Woods, who died at the facility on January 10, 2025, while Bracewell held the Deputy Warden role there. GPS's registry lists the cause as Overdose. No lawsuits naming Bracewell as a defendant, no intelligence reports or events at the facility during her tenure, and no news reports naming her appear in the records provided.

What happened on their watch

Whitworth Women's Facility — Deputy Warden, 2016 through 2025 (additional single-date entries November 22, 2023 and August 27, 2026)

GPS attributes one death at this facility to Bracewell's tenure in this role, and the records preserve it as an entry in the registry rather than a statistic:

• Rhianna Woods died January 10, 2025, at Whitworth Women's Facility; GPS's registry lists the cause as Overdose. Bracewell was serving as Deputy Warden there on that date.

GPS's registry carries no age at death for Woods and no public narrative account of the circumstances, so nothing further about how she died is stated here. No lawsuit in the records names Bracewell as a defendant in connection with this death or any other matter during her tenure. No intel reports or intel events dated within her leadership tenure at Whitworth appear in the records, and no news coverage naming her is recorded.

Because the only death attributed to her tenure is recorded in 2025, the earlier years of her Deputy Warden posting are documented here only by the position and salary records: Deputy Warden at Whitworth for each year from 2016 to 2025, at the salary figures listed above. Her 2015 Correction Administration year carries no facility assignment and no attributed deaths; those records show only the title and the dates.

Sources

• Georgia Prisoners' Speak death registry — entry for Rhianna Woods, died January 10, 2025, Whitworth Women's Facility, cause listed as Overdose
• Georgia Prisoners' Speak personnel records — Sheila Bracewell position and salary history, Correction Administration (2015) and Deputy Warden, Whitworth Women's Facility (2016–2025, plus single-date entries November 22, 2023 and August 27, 2026)

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Sep 25, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.