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Carter, Samantha Denise

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Profile written August 30, 2026

Current Position Deputy Warden Of Administration Augusta State Medical Prison

Salary $52,696 2025 · state payroll

Deaths Under Their Watch 32 during their tenure

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

Samantha Denise Carter's GPS career record begins in 2003 as Administrative Support at Hancock State Prison. She later held Administrative Support at Washington State Prison in 2012, Financial Operational Generalist at Augusta State Medical Prison in 2019, Financial Ops Generalist 2 at Hancock State Prison in 2023, and Accounting Technician II/3 roles with no facility assignment in 2022, 2024, and 2025. On January 16, 2026, GPS records list her as Deputy Warden of Administration at Augusta State Medical Prison, with a later Deputy Warden entry dated August 27, 2026. GPS records attribute 32 deaths to Augusta State Medical Prison during that leadership tenure; those are the only facility deaths attributed to her leadership roles. GPS records list no lawsuits naming Carter as a defendant.

What happened on their watch

Augusta State Medical Prison — Deputy Warden of Administration, January 16, 2026 – present

GPS records attribute 32 deaths at Augusta State Medical Prison during Carter's tenure as deputy warden, with decedent incident dates from January 20 through August 5, 2026. By GPS cause-category, 13 deaths are categorized as natural, three as homicide, and 16 as unknown/pending.

Natural deaths include Henry Ross, 56, listed by the Richmond County Coroner's Office as hemorrhagic shock; Robert Bruce Green, 69, E. coli with sepsis; Lemarcus Antonio Dunson, 50, refractory follicular lymphoma; Jackie McCoy Blackmon, 72, infective endocarditis of mitral valve; Edward Eugene Barber, 72, acute hypoxic respiratory failure; Ervin Cross, 46, hypertensive cardiovascular disease; Lenward Brown, 73, COPD exacerbation; Sidney Dorsey, 86, complications of embolic cerebral infarction; Shaa-mil Brown, 34, congestive heart failure; Donald Miller, 41, COPD; John W. Curry, 64, multi-system organ failure; and Jefferson Phillips Harvard, 61, COPD exacerbation. Additional coroner-documented natural deaths include Walter Caldwell, 49.

Homicide-category deaths are Wanique Marsay Odwin, 44, on June 29; Jacobi Alandis Chomicki, 23, on May 22; and Jerry Wayne Merritt, 59, on January 20. GPS records include a witness account that a homicide occurred in the D2 unit around the time of Chomicki's death, and a GDC May 2026 mortality report confirmed his identity. For Merritt, GPS notes state that John Jaquis Trimer is accused of stabbing Merritt with a "sharpened object" in the chest and shoulder; a migrated user report alleges the stabbing was over a commissary debt, and the notes say the account came from the person who said he did it. Those are allegations, not adjudicated findings.

The 16 unknown/pending deaths include Donald Hugh Young, August 5 — whose death GPS records say was corroborated by GDC's exact-ID lookup returning not_found/purged, with cause unknown — plus Phillip Curtis Walker, Kolby Young, Edouard Kamdem, Joseph Daniel Bristol, David James Vineyard, Jerry Watson, David Meeks, James Dean Wilkinson, Frederick Raskin, Manuel Gomez, Tristan McLennon Trimm, Wilburn W. Dobbs, Alphonso Watts, Dequan Osborne, and Michael Jefferson.

A 2024 U.S. DOJ investigation, as reported by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, found systemic violence, sexual assaults, and gang-run prisons in GDC; those findings predate Carter's 2026 ASMP deputy warden tenure but describe the broader environment in which ASMP-specific allegations also appear in GPS's AJC archive.

Sources

GPS personnel and death records — career history, death attribution totals, and decedent entries
Richmond County Coroner's Office ORR summaries, 2026, archived in GPS records
GDC May 2026 and June 2026 monthly mortality reports, as archived in GPS records
Atlanta Journal-Constitution — GDC homicide investigations, ASMP-specific allegations, and reporting on 2024 DOJ findings
U.S. Department of Justice 2024 investigative findings, as reported by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Aug 30, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.

Positions Held

Title	Facility	Tenure
Deputy Warden	AUGUSTA STATE MEDICAL PRISON	2026-08-27 → present
Deputy Warden of Administration	AUGUSTA STATE MEDICAL PRISON	2026-01-16 → present
ACCOUNTING TECHNICIAN 3		2024-01-01 → present
Financial Ops Generalist 2	HANCOCK STATE PRISON	2023-11-22 → 2023-11-22
FINANCIAL OPS GENERALIST 2	HANCOCK STATE PRISON	2023-01-01 → 2023-12-31
Accounting Technician II		2022-01-01 → 2022-12-31
Financial Operational Generalist	AUGUSTA STATE MEDICAL PRISON	2019-01-01 → 2019-12-31
Administrative Support	WASHINGTON STATE PRISON	2012-01-01 → 2012-12-31
Administrative Support	HANCOCK STATE PRISON	2003-01-01 → 2003-12-31

Deaths attributed during tenure

32 people died at facilities under Carter, Samantha Denise's leadership.

About deaths recorded at Augusta State Medical Prison. Augusta State Medical Prison (ASMP) is the GDC's primary medical and end-of-life facility. It concentrates the system's most seriously ill, disabled, and dying people — many transferred there because they were already gravely ill or injured, including after violence at other prisons. A large share of the deaths counted here reflect advanced illness, and the wardens and deputy wardens listed should not be held personally accountable for every death at this facility. That said, conditions at ASMP still produce more deaths than necessary, and responsibility is shared: the State of Georgia and the Board of Pardons and Paroles bear equal responsibility for holding medically incapacitated and dying people in custody far longer than necessary. Read these figures as positional context — not as a measure of any individual official's culpability.

Date	Decedent	Age	Facility	Role at time
2026-08-05	Donald Hugh Young	—	AUGUSTA STATE MEDICAL PRISON †	Deputy Warden of Administration
2026-07-16	PHILLIP CURTIS WALKER	62	AUGUSTA STATE MEDICAL PRISON †	Deputy Warden of Administration
2026-07-13	KOLBY YOUNG	24	AUGUSTA STATE MEDICAL PRISON †	Deputy Warden of Administration
2026-07-12	EDOUARD KAMDEM	77	AUGUSTA STATE MEDICAL PRISON †	Deputy Warden of Administration
2026-07-11	JOSEPH DANIEL BRISTOL	73	AUGUSTA STATE MEDICAL PRISON †	Deputy Warden of Administration
2026-07-03	DAVID JAMES VINEYARD	58	AUGUSTA STATE MEDICAL PRISON †	Deputy Warden of Administration
2026-07-02	JERRY WATSON	75	AUGUSTA STATE MEDICAL PRISON †	Deputy Warden of Administration
2026-06-29	WANIQUE MARSAY Odwin	44	AUGUSTA STATE MEDICAL PRISON †	Deputy Warden of Administration
2026-06-20	DAVID MEEKS	62	AUGUSTA STATE MEDICAL PRISON †	Deputy Warden of Administration
2026-05-28	JAMES DEAN WILKINSON	69	AUGUSTA STATE MEDICAL PRISON †	Deputy Warden of Administration
2026-05-22	JACOBI ALANDIS CHOMICKI	23	AUGUSTA STATE MEDICAL PRISON †	Deputy Warden of Administration
2026-05-12	FREDERICK RASKIN	84	AUGUSTA STATE MEDICAL PRISON †	Deputy Warden of Administration
2026-05-11	HENRY ROSS	56	AUGUSTA STATE MEDICAL PRISON †	Deputy Warden of Administration
2026-05-09	MANUEL GOMEZ	—	AUGUSTA STATE MEDICAL PRISON †	Deputy Warden of Administration
2026-05-05	ROBERT BRUCE GREEN	69	AUGUSTA STATE MEDICAL PRISON †	Deputy Warden of Administration
2026-04-27	LEMARCUS ANTONIO DUNSON	50	AUGUSTA STATE MEDICAL PRISON †	Deputy Warden of Administration
2026-04-25	WALTER CALDWELL	49	AUGUSTA STATE MEDICAL PRISON †	Deputy Warden of Administration
2026-04-25	JACKIE MCCOY BLACKMON	72	AUGUSTA STATE MEDICAL PRISON †	Deputy Warden of Administration
2026-04-22	EDWARD EUGENE BARBER	72	AUGUSTA STATE MEDICAL PRISON †	Deputy Warden of Administration
2026-04-09	TRISTAN MCLENNON TRIMM	42	AUGUSTA STATE MEDICAL PRISON †	Deputy Warden of Administration
2026-03-24	ERVIN CROSS	46	AUGUSTA STATE MEDICAL PRISON †	Deputy Warden of Administration
2026-03-20	LENWARD BROWN	73	AUGUSTA STATE MEDICAL PRISON †	Deputy Warden of Administration
2026-03-06	WILBURN W DOBBS	76	AUGUSTA STATE MEDICAL PRISON †	Deputy Warden of Administration
2026-03-02	SIDNEY DORSEY	86	AUGUSTA STATE MEDICAL PRISON †	Deputy Warden of Administration
2026-03-01	ALPHONSO WATTS	54	AUGUSTA STATE MEDICAL PRISON †	Deputy Warden of Administration
2026-02-17	DEQUAN OSBORNE	33	AUGUSTA STATE MEDICAL PRISON †	Deputy Warden of Administration
2026-02-11	SHAA-MIL BROWN	34	AUGUSTA STATE MEDICAL PRISON †	Deputy Warden of Administration
2026-02-09	DONALD MILLER	41	AUGUSTA STATE MEDICAL PRISON †	Deputy Warden of Administration
2026-02-02	MICHAEL JEFFERSON	38	AUGUSTA STATE MEDICAL PRISON †	Deputy Warden of Administration
2026-01-31	JOHN W CURRY	64	AUGUSTA STATE MEDICAL PRISON †	Deputy Warden of Administration
2026-01-22	JEFFERSON PHILLIPS HARVARD	61	AUGUSTA STATE MEDICAL PRISON †	Deputy Warden of Administration
2026-01-20	JERRY WAYNE MERRITT	59	AUGUSTA STATE MEDICAL PRISON †	Deputy Warden of Administration

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