Chaney, Mable Larose

Tenure Summary

Mable Larose Chaney appears in GDC salary records in 2015 in correction administration, then moves to Dooly State Prison in 2016, where she holds the Deputy Warden post in annual salary records every year through 2025 (from $53,559.36 in 2016 to $73,436.23 in 2025) and is listed in 2026 personnel records as Deputy Warden of Care and Treatment.

GPS attributes 52 deaths at Dooly State Prison to her leadership tenure there — the entire total, at that single facility. No lawsuit naming Chaney as a defendant appears in the records reviewed. What the record does show for her tenure is a long run of state liability payouts logged in the Georgia DOAS Risk Management settlement ledger, death-in-custody reporting by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Georgia Public Broadcasting, and inside accounts of stabbings, staffing collapse, and a statewide lockdown triggered by a fight at Dooly in May 2026.

What happened on their watch

Deputy Warden, Dooly State Prison (2016–2025). GPS's death registry attributes 52 deaths at Dooly State Prison to Chaney's leadership tenure. Causes recorded on those registry entries include homicide, overdose, natural/medical, suicide and unknown/pending. Those who died at Dooly State Prison during her tenure, as recorded in GPS's registry:

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

State liability payouts recorded for Dooly incidents inside this period, per the Georgia DOAS Risk Management settlement ledger: $25,000 tied to Shon L. Miller (2016), $5,000 to Eddie J. King (2017), $1,000 to Anthony T. Hill (2019), $3,100 to Rodney McCrary (2020), $700,000 to James R. Yarbrough (2020, linked to a documented death record), $3,500 to Thomas Andrew Whittle (2023) and $1,000 to Amos Westmoreland (2023).

Outside reporting and inside accounts overlap the same years. The AJC reported that a coroner alleged Soldiew-Acosta may have been dead for more than 24 hours before his body was found, and that James Yarbrough suffered uncontrolled diabetes for months before dying of ketoacidosis, in a case alleging medical malpractice. GPB reported in October 2024 that Cody Bailey alleges Dooly medical staff put his father's treatment "on the back burner," contributing to his death from sepsis. Inside reports describe a prisoner stabbed at Dooly in January 2024 whose life-threatening injury was reported to staff by contraband phone, an inmate beaten by a lieutenant and a CERT team in April 2025 after requesting protection from gang threats, housing units left with no officer supervision for hours or entire shifts in a November 2025 investigation, and a December 2025 search that found a cadet carrying 640 grams of methamphetamine.

Deputy Warden of Care and Treatment, Dooly State Prison (2016–present). This is the role attached to the facility's 2026 records. Documented incidents in 2026 include a gang-related fight injuring five on March 23; a fight on April 1 leaving six injured, three airlifted, which GDC called gang-related; a May 22 gang-related altercation injuring nine, after which all GDC facilities were placed on lockdown and Memorial Day visitation was cancelled at Dooly and three other prisons; and a June 7 altercation involving three inmates in which one was hospitalized. January 2026 reports describe Dooly holding 1,593 people in a facility designed for 500, with officer vacancies averaging about 50 percent.

Inside submissions to GPS in 2026 allege further violence and conditions: repeated stabbings, including one during pill call in which an incarcerated person reportedly used a nurse as a shield; a staffing shortage with a missed count and a sergeant covering one side alone; rival groups fighting with the facility reportedly not separating them; an October 10 meal schedule leaving roughly 17 hours between the evening meal and breakfast, against the 14-hour limit in GDC's own food-service policy (SOP 409.04.02); and a November 3 report alleging that a person struck another and cut someone's head open while a deputy warden was present and did not intervene. Also in 2026, a former cadet, Julius Deshawn Williams Jr., was sentenced to 10 years plus five years supervised release for smuggling methamphetamine into Dooly, and Abraham Rivas was charged with defrauding a Florida resident of $1,000 into his commissary account; Rivas claimed other inmates ran similar scams and that correctional staff were aware — an allegation attributed to him in WALB and Wesh.com reporting.

Sources

• GPS Death Registry — 52 deaths attributed to Dooly State Prison during Chaney's leadership tenure; individual decedents named above
• Georgia DOAS Risk Management settlement ledger (Open Records) — liability payouts tied to Dooly State Prison, 2016–2023
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — reporting on the Soldiew-Acosta and Yarbrough deaths at Dooly
• Georgia Public Broadcasting (October 1, 2024) — Cody Bailey's allegations regarding James Michael Bailey's death
• WGXA and 13WMAZ — GDC statements on gang-related fights at Dooly, 2026; Williams methamphetamine case
• WALB; Wesh.com; News-journalonline.com — Rivas fraud case and his claims about staff awareness
• Inside reports submitted to Georgia Prisoners' Speak, 2024–2026 — stabbings, staffing, meals, and the alleged non-intervention by a deputy warden
• U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Georgia (via WGXA) — Williams guilty plea and sentencing

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Nov 8, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.