Butts, Melvin

Tenure Summary

Melvin Butts first appears in Georgia Department of Corrections position records in 2015 in a correctional operations post ($45,162.48), moved into business operations management for 2016 and 2017 ($47,492.34 and $48,732.48), and was promoted to deputy warden in 2018 — a rank he held continuously through the 2025 salary year, with pay rising from $57,877.87 to $81,037.68. Facility-specific records place him as deputy warden at McRae Women's Facility on November 22, 2023, in the 2025 salary year, and again on August 27, 2026.

GPS's death registry attributes one death to his leadership tenure, at McRae Women's Facility. No lawsuit naming Butts as a defendant appears in the records, and no intelligence report, intelligence event, or news mention naming him falls within his facility tenure as documented here. His recorded status is active.

What happened on their watch

Deputy Warden, 2018–2022 (no facility assignment recorded). Salary records list Butts at the deputy warden rank for these years without a facility attached; only the rank and dates are documented here.

McRae Women's Facility — Deputy Warden (records dated November 22, 2023; 2025 salary year; August 27, 2026). One death is attributed to Butts's tenure at McRae, where he held the deputy warden role on the date of death:

• Jadia Corine Rozier died July 20, 2025, at McRae Women's Facility; GPS's death registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical. She was 23.

The single attributed death is therefore recorded in the registry as medical in nature; the records contain no homicide, suicide, or use-of-force death attributed to this tenure. No lawsuit filed against Butts while he held the McRae deputy warden post, and no intelligence report or logged event dated inside that tenure, appears in the records provided. Beyond the death record itself, the input documents no allegations, findings, audits, or news coverage concerning his tenure at the facility.

Sources

• GPS death registry (Georgia Prisoners' Speak) — death of Jadia Corine Rozier, July 20, 2025, McRae Women's Facility, listed cause Natural/Medical, age 23
• Georgia Department of Corrections position and salary records, 2015–2025, as compiled in the GPS personnel database — career trajectory, deputy warden rank from 2018, salary progression
• GPS personnel assignment records dated November 22, 2023, the 2025 salary year, and August 27, 2026 — Deputy Warden, McRae Women's Facility

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Nov 8, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.