Chambers, Pashion

Tenure Summary

Pashion Chambers spent the first six years of her documented GDC career in behavioral health, serving as a Behavioral Health Counselor 3 from 2016 through 2018 and as a Behavioral Health Counselor Supervisor from 2019 through 2021, before moving into facility leadership. Salary records show her as Deputy Warden at Rutledge State Prison continuously from 2022 through 2025, with a further Deputy Warden entry at Rutledge dated Aug. 27, 2026. A single-day Deputy Warden record also places her at Central State Prison on Nov. 22, 2023.

Fourteen deaths are attributed to her leadership tenure, and all 14 are recorded at Rutledge State Prison. The named decedents in GPS's records span ages 26 to 75; 11 of the 14 were 45 or older. Two deaths in the record are documented as homicides. No lawsuit in the records names Chambers as a defendant, and no news report in the data names her directly.

What happened on their watch

Rutledge State Prison — Deputy Warden (2022–2025, and a 2026 record) — 14 deaths attributed during this posting. Named in the records: Boyzie Barnes, 65 (Apr. 30, 2022); Daniel Tyler Nichols, 26 (Apr. 23, 2023); John Irvin Sr. Tidd, 59 (July 18, 2023); Leonard Leroy Dillard, 57 (Oct. 11, 2023); Leroy House, 68 (Jan. 3, 2024); Anthony Antonio Hand, 52 (Jan. 28, 2024); Venteris Leon Hobson, 58 (July 7, 2024); Tony Jeromy Reddish, 45 (Sept. 28, 2024); Joe Payne, 73 (Dec. 29, 2024); William Edward Houston, 75 (Apr. 10, 2025); Alan Thomas Bryant, 46 (June 1, 2025); Brandon Keith Bolden, 37 (June 15, 2025); Jonathan Lloyd Myers, 38 (May 3, 2026); and Altereck Mance Dockery, 49 (June 14, 2026).

Two of those deaths are documented as homicides in GPS event records. Nichols, 26, died April 23, 2023, from asphyxia due to neck compression. Hobson, 58, died July 7, 2024, from an inmate-to-inmate assault; a coroner told a TV station that Hobson was found dead in his cell after a fight with his cellmate. The remaining records list a cause category but no narrative detail.

Two allegations surfaced at Rutledge while Chambers held the Deputy Warden role, both reported by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Jan. 21, 2025. In one, the sister of Curtis Mincey alleged in a lawsuit that Mincey suffered from a mental illness but did not receive appropriate medical or psychological assistance before his death; Mincey does not appear in the facility's attributed death list. In the other, Sergeant Erika Shonquandria Hall allegedly admitted to providing prisoners with cellphones, chargers, tobacco and food in exchange for money on at least six occasions — conduct described in the AJC's reporting on Operation Skyhawk, a contraband scheme run by a prisoner at Valdosta. Hall is identified in the records as a Rutledge officer, a subordinate post to Chambers's role.

A state liability payout of $20,000 is also tied to Rutledge State Prison for a 2024 incident, dated June 19, 2024, per the Georgia DOAS Risk Management settlement ledger obtained through open records. The person named in that settlement record is Amber Brejae Walker.

Central State Prison — Deputy Warden (Nov. 22, 2023) — a single-day leadership record with no deaths attributed to it in the data.

Chambers's 2016–2021 behavioral health positions are listed without an assigned facility; no death or incident records are attached to those years in this dataset.

Sources

• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — lawsuit allegation regarding Curtis Mincey's death and alleged medical/psychological neglect at Rutledge State Prison (Jan. 21, 2025)
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — Operation Skyhawk contraband reporting naming Sergeant Erika Shonquandria Hall at Rutledge State Prison (Jan. 21, 2025)
• Georgia DOAS Risk Management settlement ledger (open records) — $20,000 liability payout tied to Rutledge State Prison, 2024 incident
• GPS death and personnel records — 14 deaths attributed to Chambers's Rutledge State Prison tenure; coroner statement on the Hobson death relayed via TV station reporting

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Sep 23, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.