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Burks, Letitia
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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
Letitia Burks is listed in GPS records as an active Georgia Department of Corrections employee currently serving as Warden at Lee State Prison. The structured data gives a start date of July 5, 2026 and no end date. GPS records attribute exactly one death to Burks’s facility-leader tenure, and the facility-level breakdown places that single death at Lee State Prison. The dataset includes no lawsuits naming Burks as a defendant and no news mentions.What happened on their watch
Lee State Prison — Warden (July 5, 2026 to present)
Five days after Burks became warden, GPS records show Yancey Sullivan, 56, died at Lee State Prison on July 10, 2026. The death record categorizes the case under cause category 6; the supplied extract includes no narrative cause, notes, or aggravating findings. This is the only death attributed to Burks’s tenure at Lee State Prison, matching the total death attribution of one and the per-facility count of one for Lee State Prison.The supplied records contain no lawsuits against Burks during this posting and no facility-level intel reports dated during the tenure. The intel-events log for facility ID 16 includes two duplicate entries dated March 8, 2026 concerning nine people hospitalized after a gang fight at Wilcox State Prison and women arrested for inciting a riot at Lee Arrendale. Because those entries predate Burks’s July 5, 2026 start and reference other facilities, they are not counted as deaths or incidents on Burks’s watch.
Sources
- GPS records — personnel, position, death-attribution, and death-detail data for Letitia Burks
- GPS intelligence events log — facility-linked event entries associated with Lee State Prison; the supplied entries predate the warden tenure
No external publications, court records, or DOJ documents are present in the supplied dataset.
Positions Held
| Title | Facility | Tenure |
|---|---|---|
| Warden | LEE STATE PRISON | 2026-07-05 → present |
Deaths attributed during tenure
1 people died at facilities under Burks, Letitia's leadership.
| Date | Decedent | Age | Facility | Role at time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-10 | YANCEY SULLIVAN | 56 | LEE STATE PRISON | Warden |
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