Chambers, Pashion

Tenure Summary

Pashion Chambers spent the first six years of her GDC career as a Behavioral Health Counselor and then Behavioral Health Counselor Supervisor (2016–2021), before transitioning into facility leadership. Since 2022, Chambers has served continuously as Deputy Warden at Rutledge State Prison, a role she still holds as of 2025. GPS records show twelve deaths at Rutledge during her deputy-warden tenure, including three classified as homicides. No lawsuits have been filed naming Chambers as a defendant.

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What Happened on Their Watch

Rutledge State Prison — Deputy Warden, 2022–present

GPS records attribute twelve deaths at Rutledge State Prison to the period of Chambers's deputy-warden tenure. Nine are categorized as cause-category 6 (unspecified in the structured records), one as natural causes, and two as homicides confirmed by the AJC's Georgia Prison Homicides investigation. On April 23, 2023, Daniel Tyler Nichols, 26, died from asphyxia due to neck compression, per GPS records and the AJC investigation. On July 7, 2024, Venteris Leon Hobson, 58, died from an inmate-to-inmate assault; according to GPS records, a coroner told a television station that Hobson was found dead in his cell after a fight with his cellmate, a finding also documented in the AJC's incident-report database. On June 15, 2025, Brandon Keith Bolden, 37, died in a death GPS records classify as homicide. Among the remaining deaths, ages ranged from 45 to 75, suggesting a population that included older and medically vulnerable individuals.

Two intel reports tied to Rutledge are on file. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Sergeant Erika Shonquandria Hall allegedly admitted to providing prisoners with cellphones, chargers, tobacco, and food in exchange for money on at least six occasions — part of a broader contraband scheme surfaced in Operation Skyhawk. Separately, the AJC reports that the sister of Curtis Mincey — who died at Rutledge on July 22, 2021, from blunt force trauma, before Chambers held the deputy-warden role — alleged in a lawsuit that Mincey suffered from mental illness and did not receive appropriate medical or psychological assistance. That death predates Chambers's leadership posting; it is noted here because the allegation concerns conditions at the same facility.

A January 2026 gang-war incident at Washington State Prison resulting in five deaths is linked in GPS records to facility ID 104 (Rutledge), though the event title references Washington State Prison; GPS records do not clarify the connection, and no further detail is available in the structured data.

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Litigation

• Buttrum v. Herring — Federal court; on March 17, 2026, a federal judge denied a motion to dismiss, ruling that Georgia's juvenile lifer parole process may violate the Eighth Amendment. The case is linked in GPS records to Rutledge State Prison (facility ID 104). Chambers is not named as a defendant.

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Sources

• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — Georgia Prison Homicides Investigation (Nichols, Hobson homicide classifications; Mincey mental-health allegation)
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — Operation Skyhawk contraband reporting (Hall allegation at Rutledge State Prison)
• GPS records — deaths-during-tenure table, positions table, intel events (Hobson coroner account; Tucker resignation; Buttrum v. Herring event entry)

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on May 6, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.