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Chambers, Brian Keith
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Profile written August 30, 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
Brian Keith Chambers appears in Georgia Department of Corrections records as a Correction Administration employee in 2015, Deputy Warden from 2016 through 2018, and Warden 1 from 2019 through 2025. His first facility-specific leadership posting in the provided data is Warden at Johnson State Prison, starting February 1, 2022 and ending June 15, 2024. GPS attributes 24 deaths to Chambers’s facility-lead tenure, all at Johnson State Prison. One lawsuit, Logan v. Chambers, named him as a defendant in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia; it was filed November 21, 2023, and terminated February 1, 2024.What happened on their watch
Johnson State Prison, Warden (Feb. 1, 2022 – June 15, 2024)
During this posting, GPS records list 24 deaths at Johnson State Prison, dated from February 23, 2022, when 74-year-old Clifford Leroy Mitcham died, through May 30, 2024, when 40-year-old Corey Wade Persall died. Ages of the decedents ranged from 23 to 85. Among the 24, two have homicide-related documentation in the supplied data: Michael Todd Page, 53, died June 29, 2023, with a note stating the cause was homicide; and Donald Prescott Lee, 41, died November 16, 2023, from blunt force trauma to the head, neck, and torso. The remaining 22 death records carry no cause notes in the provided data.Other events overlapping Chambers’s Johnson tenure include a failed food safety inspection on December 1, 2023, with a score of 64/100 and documentation of rats, roaches, and broken kitchen equipment, according to GPS event records; an April 5, 2023 escape at Johnson for which GDC issued no news release; and a $100,000 state liability payout tied to a 2023 Johnson incident involving Andrick Jackson, per the GA DOAS Risk Management settlement ledger.
A former GDC CERT commander/sergeant major, Tyler Ryals, offers a witness claim on his YouTube channel concerning Johnson State Prison around spring 2024. Ryals alleges the roughly 1,400-man compound ran a Saturday with four staff total, a just-promoted sergeant as officer-in-charge, no lieutenant, one officer alone in the lockdown building, and no male officer available for visitation strip searches. He also claims a taser use of force in a mental-health crisis response was never entered into GDC’s incident-reporting system because the sergeant did not know how, and describes female officers relying on inmate “MA bodyguards” and a prior stabbing of a female officer at Johnson. These are allegations from one whistleblower source, and the supplied records do not include independent corroboration.
Litigation
- Logan v. Chambers, No. 3:23-cv-00092 (U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia), filed November 21, 2023; terminated February 1, 2024; no outcome amount listed.
- A separate lawsuit brought by the family of David Lamar Henegar over his October 16, 2021 death at Johnson State Prison appears in GPS event records; that death predates Chambers’s Johnson warden posting, and the case is not listed among lawsuits naming Chambers as a defendant. Georgia later paid $4 million to settle the Henegar case, per GPS event and DOAS records.
Sources
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution — Georgia prison homicides investigation, cited for Donald Prescott Lee and Michael Todd Page death records and Henegar allegations.
- Tyler C. Ryals YouTube channel — witness claims about Johnson State Prison staffing and incident reporting, spring 2024.
- CourtListener — Logan v. Chambers docket.
- GA DOAS Risk Management settlement ledger — Johnson State Prison liability payouts.
- GPS records — personnel postings, death attribution, and facility events.
Positions Held
| Title | Facility | Tenure |
|---|---|---|
| WARDEN 1 | 2019-01-01 → present | |
| Warden 1 | JOHNSON STATE PRISON | 2023-11-22 → 2023-11-22 |
| Warden | JOHNSON STATE PRISON | 2022-02-01 → 2024-06-15 |
| DEPUTY WARDEN | 2016-01-01 → 2018-12-31 | |
| CORRECTION ADMINISTRATION | 2015-01-01 → 2015-12-31 |
Lawsuits as defendant
| Case # | Court | Filed | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3:23-cv-00092 | GASD | 2023-11-21 | terminated |
| 1:21-cv-04970 | GAND | 2021-12-03 | terminated |
Deaths attributed during tenure
24 people died at facilities under Chambers, Brian Keith's leadership.
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