Chaney, Mable Larose

Tenure Summary

Mable Larose Chaney appears in GDC personnel records first in 2015 in a correction administration post with no facility assignment, earning $53,559.36. From 2016 through 2025, GPS records list her as deputy warden at Dooly State Prison, with her listed annual salary rising from $53,559.36 in 2016 to $73,436.23 in 2025. GPS records attribute 49 deaths to facility-leader tenures held by Chaney, all at Dooly State Prison. The structured record contains no lawsuits naming Chaney as a defendant.

What happened on their watch

Dooly State Prison — Deputy Warden (2016–2025)

GPS records attribute 49 deaths at Dooly State Prison to Chaney’s tenure as deputy warden. The most recent sample of those deaths lists ages from 25 to 75. Many records carry no cause note. Where cause information exists, the records include homicides, natural classifications, undetermined deaths, and a death from ketoacidosis described in an Atlanta Journal-Constitution report.

Among the named decedents: Brian Lee Wainwright, 59, died Jan. 4, 2024, and is recorded as a homicide according to the AJC Georgia Prison Homicides Investigation. Chad Taylor Roadifer, 45, died Oct. 27, 2023, of delayed complications of blunt force head trauma, per the same AJC investigation. Dimitri Merci Jackson, 36, died Jan. 3, 2023, of a stab wound to the chest, also per the AJC. Joshua Parrott, 45, died Jan. 12, 2025, with cause listed as “Homicide due to Strangulation” in a GDC-released January 2025 mortality report. Zeary Davante Davis, 31, died Sept. 26, 2024, after an assault by another prisoner, according to a GDC EAH report in GPS records; the Dooly County Coroner’s cause was recorded as “undetermined.” Darrow Brown, 58, died Nov. 7, 2025; a GPS user report says he was killed by a member of the Crips gang while being escorted on the walk. Horatio Philmore, 58, died Feb. 2, 2025; GPS intel event records say the death was declared a suicide, while prisoner reports indicated strangulation.

Several 2020–2021 deaths in the sample were coded “Natural” by GDC in the UCLA Law Behind Bars Data Project custodial mortality dataset, obtained through an open records request; one 2020 death was coded “Undetermined.”

Other documented concerns at Dooly overlapped the same period. An AJC report says a coroner alleged that Carlos Omar Soldiew-Acosta, 38, who died June 22, 2024, may have been dead more than 24 hours before his body was found. AJC reporting also describes James Yarbrough, 46, who died Aug. 14, 2020, as having uncontrolled diabetes for months before dying of ketoacidosis in a case alleging medical malpractice. Georgia Public Broadcasting reported that a son alleged medical staff at Dooly put his father’s sepsis treatment “on the back burner.” GPS intel records also include an allegation that an inmate was beaten by Lt. Fudge and a CERT team after requesting protection in April 2025.

Broader facility incident reports included contraband and violence. WGXA reported that GDC cadet Julius Deshawn Williams Jr. attempted to smuggle 640 grams of methamphetamine into Dooly; the investigation began in June 2024, and he was later sentenced to 10 years plus five years of supervised release. Wesh.com and WALB reported that prisoner Abraham Rivas ran a phone-fraud scheme from Dooly and alleged that staff were aware of such scams. GPS records dated 2025–2026 describe Dooly operating at 212 percent of original design capacity, with a 50 percent statewide correctional officer vacancy rate and an investigation into housing units left without officer supervision. Multiple gang-related fights were also reported at Dooly, including incidents in 2026 in which six and nine inmates were injured and a statewide GDC lockdown was ordered.

Sources

• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — Georgia Prison Homicides Investigation and prison-system medical negligence reporting
• GDC-released January 2025 mortality report — official cause-of-death entry for Joshua Parrott
• Dooly County Coroner and GDC EAH report records maintained in GPS case management
• UCLA Law Behind Bars Data Project custodial mortality dataset, obtained via open records
• WGXA — reporting on Julius Deshawn Williams Jr. methamphetamine smuggling and Dooly fights
• Wesh.com — reporting on Abraham Rivas fraud allegations
• WALB — reporting on the Rivas phone-fraud scheme from Dooly State Prison
• Georgia Public Broadcasting — reporting on medical neglect allegations and the DOJ investigation into Georgia prisons
• GPS intel reports, incident logs, and user death reports for Dooly State Prison

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Aug 23, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.