Chambers, Pashion

Tenure Summary

Pashion Chambers held Georgia Department of Corrections behavioral-health roles from 2016 through 2021 — first as a Behavioral Health Counselor 3, then as a Behavioral Health Counselor Supervisor — before becoming deputy warden at Rutledge State Prison in 2022. GPS records also contain a one-day deputy warden listing for Central State Prison on Nov. 22, 2023. GPS records attribute 14 deaths to Rutledge State Prison during Chambers’s deputy-warden tenure; all 14 facility-attributed deaths are listed under Rutledge, and none are attributed to the Central State one-day posting. Chambers does not appear as a defendant in any lawsuit in the GPS lawsuit index. Separate state-settlement ledger entries and news-based allegations document deaths, violence, and contraband intersecting with the facility during this period.

What happened on their watch

Rutledge State Prison — Deputy Warden (2022–2025, with later entries)

GPS records attribute 14 deaths at Rutledge State Prison during Chambers’s deputy-warden tenure. The decedent records listed in the GPS extract range in age from 26 to 75. Among the individually documented causes: Daniel Tyler Nichols, 26, died April 23, 2023; the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s homicide investigation lists asphyxia due to neck compression. Venteris Leon Hobson, 58, died July 7, 2024; the AJC lists an inmate-to-inmate assault homicide. Brandon Keith Bolden, 37, died June 15, 2025; GPS notes describe the cause as homicide, with the spelling “Homocide” attributed in the record to spreadsheet lineage. Alan Thomas Bryant, 46, has a note of natural causes for June 1, 2025. Other named records — including Boyzie Barnes, John Irvin Tidd Sr., Leonard Leroy Dillard, Leroy House, Anthony Antonio Hand, Tony Jeromy Reddish, Joe Payne, William Edward Houston, Jonathan Lloyd Myers, and Alterek Mance Dockery — carry no cause notes in the GPS extract.

A December 2023 Georgia Public Broadcasting report, published while Chambers held the deputy warden post at Rutledge, described severe staff shortages that had allowed gang members to effectively run Georgia prisons and linked those conditions to rising violence and deaths. An AJC report cited in GPS intel alleges that a Rutledge sergeant admitted to providing prisoners with cellphones, chargers, tobacco, and food in exchange for money on at least six occasions. In January 2025, a lawsuit filed by the sister of Curtis Mincey alleged that Mincey, who died at Rutledge in 2021, suffered from mental illness and did not receive appropriate medical or psychological assistance; the GPS index does not list Chambers as a defendant in that action. A Georgia Department of Administrative Services settlement ledger entry records a $20,000 state liability payout tied to a 2024 Rutledge State Prison incident, without naming Chambers as a defendant.

Central State Prison — one-day Deputy Warden listing (Nov. 22, 2023)

No deaths are attributed to Chambers at Central State Prison. GPS intel records for Central State document stabbing deaths in December 2023 and later guard-misconduct allegations, but those dates fall outside the single-day listing.

Sources

• GPS records — personnel history, death-attribution data, and lawsuit-index check for Pashion Chambers
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — Georgia prison homicides investigation; Operation Skyhawk contraband reporting
• Georgia Public Broadcasting — Dec. 27, 2023 report on staffing shortages, gang control, and prison deaths
• GA DOAS Risk Management settlement ledger — 2024 Rutledge State Prison liability payout
• 13WMAZ — Central State Prison reports referenced in GPS intel, not tied to Chambers’s one-day listing

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.