Butts, Melvin

Tenure Summary

Melvin Butts's GDC career, per Georgia Department of Corrections personnel and salary records, begins in 2015 in Correction Operations ($45,162.48), moves through business management — Manager, Business Ops in 2016 and 2017 — and then into the custody leadership track as a Deputy Warden in 2018, a title the salary records carry continuously through 2025. Facility-specific records place him as Deputy Warden at McRae Women's Facility on November 22, 2023, again for the 2025 salary year (at $81,037.68), and on August 27, 2026. GDC lists his status as active.

One death is attributed to a facility under his leadership: Jadia Corine Rozier, 23, who died July 20, 2025, at McRae Women's Facility, where GPS's death registry lists the cause as Homicide and records his role at the time as Deputy Warden. The records show no lawsuit naming Butts as a defendant, no news report naming him, and no intel report or intel event at his facilities dated within his tenure.

What happened on their watch

Deputy Warden, 2018–2024 (no facility attached in the records). Salary records list Butts as a Deputy Warden for these consecutive years — $57,877.87 in 2018 rising to $76,037.68 in 2024 — without a facility assignment attached to any of those entries. No death is attributed to him in connection with these years.

Deputy Warden, McRae Women's Facility — records dated November 22, 2023; the 2025 salary year; and August 27, 2026. This is the only posting in the input tied to both a facility and a death. One death is attributed to his tenure there:

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

The registry records Butts's role at the time of Rozier's death as Deputy Warden. No lawsuit filed against him while he held that role appears in the records, and the intelligence ledger contains no intel report or intel event at McRae Women's Facility dated inside his tenure. The records contain no finding or allegation tying him personally to the circumstances of the death, and none is asserted here.

Sources

• Georgia Department of Corrections personnel and salary records — position history and annual salary, 2015–2026, including McRae Women's Facility Deputy Warden entries dated November 22, 2023, the 2025 salary year, and August 27, 2026.
• GPS Death Registry — entry for Jadia Corine Rozier, died July 20, 2025, at McRae Women's Facility; cause listed as Homicide; age 23; role at time of death recorded as Deputy Warden.

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Oct 11, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.