Carver, Keenan

Tenure Summary

Carver, Keenan rose through the ranks of the Georgia Department of Corrections, starting as a Correctional Officer 1 in 2016 and advancing to Correctional Sergeant by 2019, then Lieutenant and Unit Manager by 2023. In 2024, Carver was appointed Deputy Warden at Smith State Prison, a facility-leader role they held through at least 2025. GPS records attribute a total of 10 deaths to facility-leader tenures held by Carver, all occurring at Smith State Prison during their time as Deputy Warden.

The period of Carver’s tenure at Smith State Prison coincided with a series of high-profile violent incidents, systemic contraband allegations, and criminal charges against facility leadership, including the arrest of Warden Brian Adams on RICO and bribery charges. No lawsuits name Carver as a defendant in the records provided.

What happened on their watch

Carver’s tenure as Deputy Warden at Smith State Prison began January 1, 2024. Within a month, on February 3, 2024, Donquerius Lamonte Mahone, 37, died at the facility. According to an Atlanta Journal-Constitution investigation, his death was ruled a homicide. The following day, February 4, 2024, Gineli Antoine Gray, 31, died; GPS records list the cause category as 6. On June 16, 2024, inmate Jaydrekus Cartez Hart, 34, shot and killed Aureon Shavea Grace, a food service employee for Aramark, in the prison kitchen before killing himself. GPS records count Hart’s death under cause category 6. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Hart used a firearm that investigators alleged was smuggled into the prison via drone. A lawsuit later filed by Deshonda Hagins in Fulton County State Court alleged that prison staff had been repeatedly warned of a gun on the premises but failed to act.

Deaths continued through the remainder of 2024. On September 7, Richard Jermine Williams, 43, died; on September 13, Orlando Jordan, 36; and on December 14, Calvin Bernard Craft, 34. GPS records categorize all three under cause category 6. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that the facility was operating with about two-thirds of correctional officer positions unfilled, leaving only 53 officers at a facility designed for 160. In 2025, on October 25, John Jacobs, 77, died at East Georgia Regional Medical Center. A coroner record obtained by GPS lists the cause as cardiorespiratory arrest due to sepsis with multiorgan failure, with the manner classified as natural. Deputy Coroner Daniel Bennett stated on the record that “any death occurring within the custody of the Georgia Department of Corrections warrants independent third-party review.”

In 2026, three additional deaths were recorded at the facility while Carver held the Deputy Warden role. On February 8, Nicholas Shafer, 24, died. GPS records categorize the cause as 3; notes collected from a user report state the decedent had been beaten and his hands and feet bound before transfer to Smith. On March 12, Dwayne Eric Albritton, 65, died (cause category 8). On May 14, Dreeonnie Lee Hart, 25, died (cause category 6). During this period, per the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The Georgia Virtue, the facility was at the center of multiple accountability events after former Warden Brian Adams was indicted by a Tattnall County grand jury on six felony counts including Violation of RICO, making false statements, and violation of oath. A civil lawsuit filed in Tattnall County State Court alleged that Adams and former Corrections Officer Ireon Moore facilitated a criminal conspiracy to kill a non-complicit correctional officer. None of these filings name Carver.

Litigation

• GPS records contain no lawsuits naming Carver as a defendant.

Sources

• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — investigation into Georgia prison homicides, reporting on staffing levels, contraband scheme, and the lethal shooting at Smith State Prison
• The Georgia Virtue — reporting on indictments of former Smith State Prison Warden Brian Adams and civil allegations of a criminal enterprise
• WTOC — reporting on former Smith State Prison employee charged with sexual assault and system-wide lockdowns
• Georgia Public Broadcasting — testimony and reporting on drone-smuggled contraband
• Coroner records — Tattnall County Deputy Coroner certification for John Jacobs
• GPS death records and user-submitted incident notes

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Jul 12, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.