Bryant, Talithia N

Tenure Summary

Talithia N. Bryant entered the Georgia Department of Corrections in 2015 as a corrections officer, moved through Correctional Captain (2016–2017) and Correctional Unit Manager (2018–2023), and became Deputy Warden at Wilcox State Prison on November 22, 2023. She has remained at Wilcox in a deputy-warden capacity since, taking the title Deputy Warden of Security on July 16, 2026. The earlier postings are recorded without a facility assignment.

GPS's death registry attributes 23 deaths to Bryant's leadership tenures, every one of them at Wilcox State Prison. By the registry's cause listings those are seven homicides, nine natural/medical deaths, five overdoses, one suicide and one death whose cause is still pending. No lawsuit naming Bryant as a defendant appears in the records reviewed.

What happened on their watch

Corrections Officer (SP), 2015; Correctional Captain, 2016–2017; Correctional Unit Manager, 2018–2023. These are staff and unit-supervisor years recorded without a facility assignment.

Deputy Warden, Wilcox State Prison — November 22, 2023 through 2025. Twenty-two of the 23 deaths attributed to Bryant's leadership fall in this posting. Per GPS's registry:

• Kevin Joseph Degraft died February 12, 2024, at Wilcox State Prison; cause listed as Overdose, age 40.
• Arthur Jerome Williams died July 19, 2024, at Wilcox State Prison; cause listed as Homicide, age 55.
• Jody Cris Jones died August 21, 2024, at Wilcox State Prison; cause listed as Natural/Medical, age 52.
• Mariol Juante Rawls died August 27, 2024, at Wilcox State Prison; cause listed as Homicide, age 41.
• Rodney Whatley died October 5, 2024, at Wilcox State Prison; cause listed as Homicide, age 54.
• Alexander S Grimes died October 9, 2024, at Wilcox State Prison; cause listed as Overdose, age 44.
• George Luis Morales died October 28, 2024, at Wilcox State Prison; cause listed as Natural/Medical, age 75.
• Rodney Hurley died November 9, 2024, at Wilcox State Prison; cause listed as Natural/Medical, age 56.
• James Edward Hogan died December 10, 2024, at Wilcox State Prison; cause listed as Overdose, age 32.
• Keith Wingo died January 16, 2025, at Wilcox State Prison; cause listed as Natural/Medical.
• Raymond Trey Moody died March 11, 2025, at Wilcox State Prison; cause listed as Unknown/Pending, age 37.
• Daylyne Collins died April 20, 2025, at Wilcox State Prison; cause listed as Homicide, age 30.
• Darrius Jerrod Zanders died May 5, 2025, at Wilcox State Prison; cause listed as Suicide, age 33.
• Thomas Leonardo Schwartz died May 14, 2025, at Wilcox State Prison; cause listed as Natural/Medical, age 59.
• Roy Lee Gates died May 16, 2025, at Wilcox State Prison; cause listed as Natural/Medical, age 39.
• Terry Alan Roper died June 6, 2025, at Wilcox State Prison; cause listed as Natural/Medical, age 70.
• Dominique Cornelius Cole died June 8, 2025, at Wilcox State Prison; cause listed as Homicide, age 37.
• Ian Rashod Henry died June 22, 2025, at Wilcox State Prison; cause listed as Homicide, age 29.
• Harold Stanley Hester died July 10, 2025, at Wilcox State Prison; cause listed as Natural/Medical, age 78.
• Collis Jr Welch died November 7, 2025, at Wilcox State Prison; cause listed as Overdose, age 55.
• Stacy Ray Bullard died November 8, 2025, at Wilcox State Prison; cause listed as Overdose, age 54.
• Willie Thomas Mosley died December 1, 2025, at Wilcox State Prison; cause listed as Natural/Medical, age 63.

Incident records place several of these deaths inside wider violence: Rawls, 41, was stabbed repeatedly with a 12-inch blade by at least eight men described as validated gang members in late August 2024, with at least eight men charged with murder; incident-report data for the Williams homicide shows two inmates involved. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported in January 2025 that nine inmates were sent to hospital with stab wounds after a gang fight at Wilcox in early 2025, and that GDC was investigating 42 deaths as possible homicides in the first six months of 2025 — nearly two-thirds of the 66 suspected prison homicides investigated in all of 2024. That January reporting also carried allegations from James Wheeler's case that officials failed to recognize his mental-health disease despite a history of self-harm and placed him in solitary confinement, where he was found hanging. In September 2025 the AJC reported the U.S. Department of Justice's findings on gang-run Georgia prisons "riddled with regular violence and sexual assault," and that hundreds of GDC employees had been arrested and fired for smuggling contraband. The same reporting alleged that Cole's family was promised a follow-up call about his death that never came and that the prison failed to return his belongings, including his wallet and Social Security card, and that Cole had told relatives guards at Wilcox were tied to gangs.

Deputy Warden of Security, Wilcox State Prison — from July 16, 2026. Maurice Antonio Brown died September 3, 2026, at Wilcox State Prison; cause listed as Homicide, age 36. Records describe an altercation involving multiple inmates that day, with seven taken to hospitals including two airlifted and two treated on site, no staff injured; GDC called it gang-related, opened an Office of Professional Standards investigation and sent the body to the GBI Crime Lab. The prison was placed on lockdown September 4, 2026. Inmate reports submitted to GPS describe a TAC-squad shakedown that recovered weapons shortly before the stabbing death, and a secondhand Telegram account of roughly 30 people stabbed or injured; both are unverified submissions, and initial reports that a guard was stabbed were disputed. A separate record describes a gang-related fight at Wilcox on September 18, 2026 that killed one person and injured nine, and a later 2026 submission states the lockdown had lifted.

Sources

• GPS death registry — 23 deaths at Wilcox State Prison during Bryant's deputy-warden tenures.
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — September 16, 2025 homicide reporting (DOJ findings, contraband arrests, Cole family allegations); January 21, 2025 investigation (Wheeler, Rawls, 2024–2025 homicide counts).
• U.S. Department of Justice — 2024 report on gang-run Georgia prisons.
• Georgia Department of Corrections, Office of Professional Standards — investigation of the September 3, 2026 death.
• GBI Crime Lab — cause-of-death referral in the Brown case.
• GPS case submissions — inmate reports on the 2026 Wilcox incidents and lockdown.

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Nov 1, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.