Carver, Keenan

Tenure Summary

What happened on their watch

On February 3, 2024, Donquerius Lamonte Mahone, 37, died. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) later classified his death as a homicide. A week later, Gineli Antoine Gray, 31, died at the prison; GPS records list the death but do not include a cause. In June, inmate Jaydrekus Cartez Hart, 34, shot and killed Aramark food service employee Aureon Grace inside the kitchen with a firearm that investigators suspect was smuggled in by drone, then turned the gun on himself; GPS records note Hart’s death that same date. A subsequent lawsuit alleged that prison staff had been warned about the gun but failed to act, according to the AJC. Two more people died in the second half of 2024: Richard Jermine Williams, 43, whose death was ruled a suicide by hanging by the GBI Medical Examiner, per records obtained by GPS; and Orlando Jordan, 36, and Calvin Bernard Craft, 34, both recorded without detailed cause-of-death notes. In September 2024, the GBI’s determination that Williams hanged himself is the only suicide explicitly verified by the medical examiner in this group.

The following year, on October 25, 2025, John Jacobs, 77, died at an outside hospital. A Tattnall County Coroner’s report reviewed by GPS states the cause was cardiorespiratory arrest from sepsis with multiorgan failure following abdominal surgeries; the manner was natural. Then, early in 2026, three more deaths occurred: Nicholas Shafer, 24, was found beaten with his hands and feet tied, according to GPS records citing an AJC investigation that labeled the death a homicide; Dwayne Eric Albritton, 65, and Dreeonnie Lee Hart, 25, died in March and May respectively, with no further cause information in the database. Throughout this period, Smith State Prison remained notorious for violence and understaffing. The AJC reported that about two-thirds of correctional officer positions were unfilled, leaving sometimes only a single officer to supervise hundreds of men. The prior warden’s indictment for allegedly accepting bribes to facilitate a massive contraband ring underscored the acute governance failures at the time Carver served as Deputy Warden.

Sources

• GPS death records and personnel data — Carver’s career history and the 10 attributed deaths, with per-facility totals.
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — homicide determinations for Donquerius Mahone and Nicholas Shafer, as well as broader reporting on understaffing and the contraband scheme at Smith State Prison.
• GBI Medical Examiner records obtained by GPS — cause and manner confirmation for Richard Jermine Williams (suicide by hanging).
• Tattnall County Coroner’s office — cause and manner documentation for John Jacobs (natural death).
• Court records — Deshonda Hagins lawsuit (Fulton County State Court) alleging failure to act on warnings about the gun used in the June 2024 kitchen homicide.

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Aug 9, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.