Chaney, Mable Larose

Tenure Summary

Mable Larose Chaney appears in Georgia Department of Corrections position records in 2015 in a correction-administration post with no facility assigned, at a listed salary of $53,559.36. From 2016 onward she is listed as a Deputy Warden at Dooly State Prison, a title recorded in later years as Deputy Warden of Care and Treatment; her listed salary at the facility rose from $53,559.36 in 2016 to $73,436.23 in 2025. Her status is recorded as active.

GPS attributes 51 deaths to Chaney's leadership tenure, every one of them at Dooly State Prison. No lawsuit naming her as a defendant appears in the records. The Georgia DOAS Risk Management settlement ledger, obtained through open records, records state liability payouts tied to Dooly State Prison across her tenure, including $700,000 for a 2020 incident linked to the death of James R. Yarbrough, plus $25,000 (2016, Shon L. Miller), $5,000 (2017, Eddie J. King), $3,100 (2020, Rodney McCrary), $1,000 (2019, Anthony T. Hill), $3,500 (2023, Thomas Andrew Whittle) and $1,000 (2023, Amos Westmoreland).

What happened on their watch

Dooly State Prison — Deputy Warden, later Deputy Warden of Care and Treatment (2016–present). All 51 deaths attributed to her leadership tenure occurred here. The deaths named in GPS's registry include:

• Jerry Jerome Smith died August 21, 2026, at Dooly State Prison; GPS's registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending, age 61.
• Jerry Mccaster died August 11, 2026, at Dooly State Prison; Unknown/Pending, age 60.
• Martez Desmond Terry died April 29, 2026, at Dooly State Prison; Natural/Medical, age 42.
• Samuel Jacob Blackmon died January 19, 2026, at Dooly State Prison; Overdose, age 40.
• Dexter Andres Levy died November 16, 2025, at Dooly State Prison; Overdose, age 32.
• Darrow Brown died November 7, 2025, at Dooly State Prison; Homicide, age 58.
• Paul Counts died October 30, 2025, at Dooly State Prison; Unknown/Pending, age 60.
• Willie Mote died October 14, 2025, at Dooly State Prison; Unknown/Pending, age 70.
• Marshall Davis Crews died September 19, 2025, at Dooly State Prison; Unknown/Pending, age 69.
• Orlando Perez Glass died August 17, 2025, at Dooly State Prison; Unknown/Pending, age 49.
• Timothy Glenn Williams died April 17, 2025, at Dooly State Prison; Overdose, age 56.
• Horatio Philmore died February 2, 2025, at Dooly State Prison; Homicide, age 58.
• Joshua Parrott died January 12, 2025, at Dooly State Prison; Homicide, age 45.
• Michael Hutchins died December 21, 2024, at Dooly State Prison; Unknown/Pending, age 75.
• David Smith died November 20, 2024, at Dooly State Prison; Natural/Medical, age 53.
• Thomas Adrian Chamblee died November 18, 2024, at Dooly State Prison; Suicide, age 32.
• Ancion Leroy Wallace died September 27, 2024, at Dooly State Prison; Natural/Medical, age 25.
• Zeary Davante Davis died September 26, 2024, at Dooly State Prison; Homicide, age 31.
• Terry J Davis died July 5, 2024, at Dooly State Prison; Unknown/Pending, age 52.
• Carlito Omar Soldiew-Acosta died June 22, 2024, at Dooly State Prison; Homicide, age 38.
• Horace Rico Mosley died May 15, 2024, at Dooly State Prison; Unknown/Pending, age 57.
• Ricky Lee Denney died May 7, 2024, at Dooly State Prison; Unknown/Pending, age 68.
• Dwight Junior Lance died April 13, 2024, at Dooly State Prison; Overdose, age 55.
• Raquon Javeyonte Tucker died March 22, 2024, at Dooly State Prison; Homicide, age 26.
• Brian Lee Wainwright died January 4, 2024, at Dooly State Prison; Homicide, age 59.

Unknown/Pending means GPS does not yet know the cause. Among the deaths named above, seven are recorded as homicides, four as overdoses, three as natural/medical, one as suicide and ten as unknown/pending. Reporting compiled in the records states that Parrott's death was initially ruled a suicide and later reclassified as a homicide by strangulation, and that Philmore's was officially ruled a suicide while incarcerated people reported strangulation. The AJC reported a coroner's allegation that Soldiew-Acosta may have been dead more than 24 hours before his body was found.

Violence inside the facility is documented repeatedly in 2026: GDC-confirmed gang-related fights injured five people on March 23, six on April 1 (three airlifted, per WGXA/13WMAZ reporting), and nine on May 22, which preceded a statewide GDC lockdown and the cancellation of Memorial Day visitation at Dooly and three other prisons. Reports submitted to GPS describe stabbings, a pill-call stabbing in which a nurse was reportedly used as a shield, a tactical squad moving through a housing unit overnight, and a disturbance in which roughly a dozen officers entered a unit and a person was reportedly struck. A November 25, 2025 report described housing units without officer supervision for hours or entire shifts; January 2026 reports described 1,593 people held in a facility built for 500 with roughly 50 percent officer vacancy.

Other allegations and incidents: a December 2025 inside report said the gap between the evening meal and breakfast ran about 17 hours against a 14-hour limit in food-service policy SOP 409.04.02. A former GDC cadet, Julius Deshawn Williams Jr., was found with 640 grams of methamphetamine in June 2024 and sentenced in August 2026 to 10 years plus five years supervised release (WGXA). Abraham Rivas was charged in a phone fraud scheme; WALB and Wesh.com reported his claim that staff were aware of such schemes. The AJC reported an allegation that Yarbrough's uncontrolled diabetes went untreated for months before his death from ketoacidosis, and GPB reported Cody Bailey's allegation that medical staff put his father's treatment "on the back burner" before his death from sepsis. Reports also describe a man beaten by officers and a CERT team in April 2025 after requesting a protective transfer. In February 2025 GDC deployed cell-phone blocking technology at Dooly and appointed Mark Agbaosi as warden without a bachelor's degree, per reporting in the records.

Sources

• GPS death registry — cause and date for each death named above
• Georgia DOAS Risk Management settlement ledger (open records) — Dooly State Prison payouts
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — Soldiew-Acosta coroner allegation; Yarbrough medical-malpractice allegation
• Georgia Public Broadcasting — Cody Bailey allegation tied to the DOJ deliberate-indifference reporting
• WGXA and 13WMAZ — GDC statements on gang-related fights; Williams methamphetamine case
• WALB, Wesh.com, News-journalonline.com — Rivas fraud allegations
• Inside reports and web submissions to GPS — 2026 stabbings, staffing, meal-gap and disturbance accounts

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Oct 18, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.