Chambers, Pashion

Tenure Summary

What happened on their watch

Rutledge State Prison (2022–present)

The year 2024 marked the deadliest stretch, with five deaths. In January, Leroy House, 68, and Anthony Antonio Hand, 52, died of category 6 causes. On July 7, Venteris Leon Hobson, 58, was killed in an inmate-on-inmate assault; the AJC investigation and a coroner’s account confirmed he was found dead in his cell after a fight with his cellmate. Later that year, Tony Jeromy Reddish, 45, died on September 28, and Joe Payne, 73, on December 29, both category 6. Also in 2024, the state paid a $20,000 settlement for an incident involving Amber Brejae Walker at the facility, according to the GA DOAS Risk Management settlement ledger.

Three deaths occurred in 2025. William Edward Houston, 75, died April 10 (category 6). Alan Thomas Bryant, 46, died of natural causes on June 1. Brandon Keith Bolden, 37, died June 15; GPS records note the cause as “Homocide,” a spelling traced to a transcription error but indicating a prisoner-on-prisoner homicide that was later confirmed by the AJC. In 2026, two more deaths were recorded: Jonathan Lloyd Myers, 38, on May 3, and Alterek Mance Dockery, 49, on June 14, both category 6.

While Chambers held the Deputy Warden role, the prison also saw staff criminality. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Sergeant Erika Shonquandria Hall allegedly admitted to smuggling cellphones, chargers, tobacco, and food to prisoners in exchange for money on multiple occasions. A lawsuit filed in January 2025 by the sister of Curtis Mincey—who died at Rutledge in 2021, before Chambers’ tenure—alleged that Mincey suffered from mental illness and did not receive appropriate medical or psychological assistance. That lawsuit did not name Chambers as a defendant. Separately, in 2026 a federal judge allowed a lawsuit challenging the state’s juvenile lifer parole process to proceed, a case that touched on conditions at Rutledge State Prison.

Litigation

Sources

• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — prison homicides investigation identifying cause of death for Nichols, Hobson, and Bolden; contraband scheme allegation against Sergeant Hall.
• Georgia Prisoners’ Speak records — death counts, incident dates, and cause categories for 14 deaths at Rutledge State Prison during Chambers’ deputy warden tenure.
• GA DOAS Risk Management settlement ledger (Open Records) — $20,000 settlement for Amber Brejae Walker incident at Rutledge in 2024.
• AJC report on Curtis Mincey lawsuit — allegation of medical/psychological neglect filed in 2025.

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Aug 2, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.