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Carr, Willie E
On GDC's 2025 payroll
Profile written September 23, 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
Willie E Carr's GDC career began at Dodge State Prison, where personnel records list him as a correctional officer in 2007 and a sergeant in 2013. He transferred to Johnson State Prison in 2014 as a sergeant and stayed there through a steady climb — correctional officer (2015), correctional lieutenant (2016–2018), and correctional unit manager (2019–2020). From 2021 through 2023 he appears in a business support analyst post with no facility attached, returning to Johnson in that role in 2024. On Nov. 1, 2024, he became Deputy Warden of Security at Johnson, and records show him in a deputy warden position at the same facility through 2025 and on the most recent entry, dated Aug. 27, 2026.
Thirty deaths are attributed to his leadership tenures, every one of them at Johnson State Prison. All 30 are dated from Nov. 8, 2024 — the start of his deputy warden period — through June 23, 2026. Decedents ranged in age from 29 to 91. No lawsuit in the records names Carr as a defendant. The only litigation tied to his tenure is a January 2025 suit over the death of David Lamar Henegar at Johnson State Prison.
What happened on their watch
Johnson State Prison — correctional lieutenant (2016–2018), correctional unit manager (2019–2020). The deaths attributed to Carr's leadership tenures are all dated from November 2024 onward, following his appointment as deputy warden. No intel reports or events in the records are tied to these earlier postings. His business support analyst years (2021–2023, and 2024 at Johnson) are staff-tier roles outside the scope of the incident and death records.
Johnson State Prison — Deputy Warden of Security (Nov. 1, 2024 – March 31, 2025). Six deaths fall in this window, per GPS records: John W. Williams (68, Nov. 8), Richard Charles Bishop (91, Dec. 2), Jason Dwight Mitchell (45, Dec. 9), Kevin Kosturi (29, Dec. 13), Calvin Obie Boynton (61, Dec. 21) and Justin Brandon Hulett (38, Feb. 12, 2025). On Jan. 21, 2025 — while the records place him in the deputy warden role — the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported a lawsuit over the death of David Lamar Henegar at Johnson State Prison. The suit alleges Henegar was choked over the course of hours by a mentally ill cellmate who had previously attacked him, and that officers failed to intervene despite neighboring prisoners screaming for help. Those are allegations made in the filing, not established findings.
Johnson State Prison — Deputy Warden (2025 – present). The remaining 24 deaths in the log are dated from May 2025 onward. The records show a dense cluster in July 2025: seven deaths in 22 days, on July 10, 12, 15, 20, 23, 29 and 31, of prisoners aged 32 to 86. Seven more deaths are logged in 2026 — Jan. 18, Jan. 27, Feb. 11, Mar. 14, Mar. 28, Apr. 18 and June 23 — ranging from age 30 to 76. Cause of death is recorded by numeric category; the majority of the 30 fall under a single category, with the remainder spread across three others. The records include no individual public narrative for any of the 30 deaths, and the news mentions tied to Carr's name are empty.
Litigation
- Henegar v. (defendant not identified in GPS records) — filed Jan. 21, 2025; court and disposition not recorded. Reported by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the suit alleges that David Lamar Henegar was choked and stomped over the course of hours by a cellmate who had previously attacked him, and that officers failed to intervene while neighboring prisoners called for help. GPS records list the matter as a facility-level lawsuit at Johnson State Prison arising while Carr held the deputy warden role; Carr is not listed as a defendant in GPS's litigation records, and no other suits naming him were found.
Sources
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution — "GA prison homicides: a list of those killed in Georgia's prison system" (report dated Jan. 21, 2025), carrying the Henegar lawsuit allegations at Johnson State Prison
- Georgia Prisoners' Speak personnel records — position and salary history for Willie E Carr, Dodge State Prison and Johnson State Prison
- Georgia Prisoners' Speak in-custody death records — 30 deaths at Johnson State Prison during Carr's deputy warden tenure
- Georgia Prisoners' Speak litigation tracker — no lawsuit listing Carr as a defendant
Positions Held
| Title | Facility | Tenure |
|---|---|---|
| Deputy Warden | JOHNSON STATE PRISON | 2026-08-27 → present |
| DEPUTY WARDEN | JOHNSON STATE PRISON | 2025-01-01 → present |
| Deputy Warden of Security | JOHNSON STATE PRISON | 2024-11-01 → 2025-03-31 |
| BUSI SUPPORT ANALYST 1 | JOHNSON STATE PRISON | 2024-01-01 → 2024-10-31 |
| BUSI SUPPORT ANALYST 1 | 2021-01-01 → 2023-12-31 | |
| CORRECTIONAL UNIT MANAGER | JOHNSON STATE PRISON | 2019-01-01 → 2020-12-31 |
| CORRECTIONAL LIEUTENANT | JOHNSON STATE PRISON | 2016-01-01 → 2018-12-31 |
| CORRECTIONS OFFICER (SP) | JOHNSON STATE PRISON | 2015-01-01 → 2015-12-31 |
| Sergeant | JOHNSON STATE PRISON | 2014-01-01 → 2014-12-31 |
| Sergeant | DODGE STATE PRISON | 2013-01-01 → 2013-12-31 |
| Correctional Officer | DODGE STATE PRISON | 2007-01-01 → 2007-12-31 |
Deaths attributed during tenure
30 people died at facilities under Carr, Willie E's leadership.
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