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Chaney, Mable Larose
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Profile written September 6, 2026
This profile reflects positional accountability — this individual held the leadership roles shown during the dates shown, during which the listed deaths or lawsuits occurred. Inclusion does not constitute a legal finding of personal culpability for any specific incident.
Tenure Summary
Mable Larose Chaney held a correctional administration post in 2015, then served as deputy warden at Dooly State Prison from 2016 onward, according to GPS records. State salary records place her in the deputy warden role at Dooly each year from 2016 through 2025, and GPS records also list her in that role on Nov. 22, 2023 and Aug. 27, 2026. GPS records attribute 50 deaths at Dooly State Prison during her deputy warden tenure. No lawsuits naming Chaney as a defendant appear in the structured record.
What happened on their watch
Dooly State Prison — Deputy Warden (2016 onward). GPS records attribute all 50 deaths to Dooly State Prison. Among documented decedents, ages range from 25 to 75. Many causes remain unknown or pending in the database. Homicides documented in GPS records include Brian Lee Wainwright (Jan. 4, 2024, per the AJC Georgia Prison Homicides Investigation), Dimitri Merci Jackson (Jan. 3, 2023, per AJC), Chad Taylor Roadifer (Oct. 27, 2023, delayed complications of blunt force head trauma, per AJC), Zeary Davante Davis (Sept. 26, 2024, per a GDC EAH inmate-death report), and Joshua Parrott (Jan. 12, 2025, per GDC’s January 2025 mortality release). A GPS prisoner report said Darrow Brown was killed on the walk on Nov. 7, 2025. For Horatio Philmore’s Feb. 2, 2025 death, GPS prisoner reporting recorded a homicide, while a separate GPS event note says the death was declared suicide but inmate reports indicated strangulation.
Toxicology-related deaths include Dexter Levy (Nov. 16, 2025, per GBI autopsy) and Dwight Lance (Apr. 13, 2024, per GBI autopsy finding combined effects of a synthetic cannabinoid and methamphetamine). GBI declined to examine Ricky Lee Denney and Terry J. Davis, according to GPS open-records productions, leaving causes unresolved. The Aug. 21, 2026 death of Jerry Jerome Smith is recorded without an established cause. The UCLA Law Behind Bars Data Project, using GDC’s own coding, lists multiple 2020–2021 Dooly deaths as natural, including Charles Blassingame, Terry Mintz, Kenneth Hicks, Shelton Donaldson, Glenn Whorton, Michael Terry, Nathaniel Troy, Andrew Harris, Luckie Miller, Charles Busbee, and David Hunter.
Broader reported events at Dooly during this period included gang-related fights covered by WGXA and 13WMAZ: five inmates injured March 23, 2026; six injured with three airlifted Apr. 1, 2026; and nine injured May 22, 2026, followed by a statewide lockdown. GPS records cite reports that Dooly held about 1,593 people in a facility designed for 500, with a 50% statewide correctional officer vacancy rate. An AJC investigation quoted a coroner alleging Carlos Omar Soldiew-Acosta may have been dead more than 24 hours before he was found, and the AJC also reported a medical malpractice case over James Yarbrough’s 2020 death from ketoacidosis. A GPB report aired a family allegation that medical staff delayed treatment, contributing to a sepsis death. GPS case records also contain an allegation from an inmate named David that he was beaten by officers after requesting protective custody. WGXA reported that a GDC cadet, Julius Deshawn Williams Jr., attempted to smuggle 640 grams of methamphetamine into Dooly; WALB and Wesh.com reported inmate Abraham Rivas’s alleged phone-fraud scheme and his claim that correctional staff were aware of inmate scams.
Sources
- GPS records — mortality database, case submissions, facility event entries
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution — Georgia Prison Homicides Investigation; prison medical malpractice and system-failures reporting
- WGXA — Dooly meth-smuggling and gang-related fight coverage
- 13WMAZ — Dooly gang-related fight coverage
- Georgia Public Broadcasting — reporting on family allegations of delayed medical care
- WALB, Wesh.com, News-JournalOnline — Abraham Rivas phone-fraud scheme reports
- GBI Division of Forensic Sciences records obtained through GPS open-records requests
- GDC EAH inmate-death report and GDC January 2025 mortality release
- UCLA Law Behind Bars Data Project custodial mortality dataset
Positions Held
| Title | Facility | Tenure |
|---|---|---|
| Deputy Warden | DOOLY STATE PRISON | 2026-08-27 → present |
| DEPUTY WARDEN | DOOLY STATE PRISON | 2016-01-01 → present |
| Deputy Warden | DOOLY STATE PRISON | 2023-11-22 → 2023-11-22 |
| CORRECTION ADMINISTRATION | 2015-01-01 → 2015-12-31 |
Deaths attributed during tenure
50 people died at facilities under Chaney, Mable Larose's leadership.
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