Chaney, Mable Larose

Tenure Summary

Mable Larose Chaney appears in Georgia Department of Corrections position records in a Correction Administration post in 2015, with an annual salary of $53,559.36 and no facility assigned. From 2016 onward she is listed as Deputy Warden at Dooly State Prison — continuously through the 2025 position record, with further Deputy Warden entries dated November 22, 2023 and August 27, 2026. Her listed status is active, and no status source indicating otherwise appears in the records.

Fifty deaths are attributed to her leadership tenures, all of them at Dooly State Prison — the entirety of the deaths recorded against her facility-leader tenures. No lawsuit naming her as a defendant appears in these records.

What happened on their watch

Correction Administration (2015). A staff-tier post with no facility attached. No deaths are attributed to this period.

Dooly State Prison — Deputy Warden (2016 through the 2025 position record; further entries November 22, 2023 and August 27, 2026). Fifty deaths at Dooly State Prison are attributed to Chaney's tenure as deputy warden there. The registry's most recent entries for this tenure name:

• Jerry Jerome Smith died August 21, 2026, at Dooly State Prison; the registry lists the cause as unknown/pending.
• Martez Desmond Terry died April 29, 2026, at Dooly State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical, age 42.
• Samuel Jacob Blackmon died January 19, 2026, at Dooly State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Overdose, age 40.
• Dexter Andres Levy died November 16, 2025, at Dooly State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Overdose, age 32.
• Darrow Brown died November 7, 2025, at Dooly State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Homicide, age 58.
• Paul Counts died October 30, 2025, at Dooly State Prison; the registry lists the cause as unknown/pending, age 60.
• Willie Mote died October 14, 2025, at Dooly State Prison; the registry lists the cause as unknown/pending, age 70.
• Marshall Davis Crews died September 19, 2025, at Dooly State Prison; the registry lists the cause as unknown/pending, age 69.
• Orlando Perez Glass died August 17, 2025, at Dooly State Prison; the registry lists the cause as unknown/pending, age 49.
• Timothy Glenn Williams died April 17, 2025, at Dooly State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Overdose, age 56.
• Horatio Philmore died February 2, 2025, at Dooly State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Homicide, age 58.
• Joshua Parrott died January 12, 2025, at Dooly State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Homicide, age 45.
• Michael Hutchins died December 21, 2024, at Dooly State Prison; the registry lists the cause as unknown/pending, age 75.
• David Smith died November 20, 2024, at Dooly State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical, age 53.
• Thomas Adrian Chamblee died November 18, 2024, at Dooly State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Suicide, age 32.
• Ancion Leroy Wallace died September 27, 2024, at Dooly State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical, age 25.
• Zeary Davante Davis died September 26, 2024, at Dooly State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Homicide, age 31.
• Terry J Davis died July 5, 2024, at Dooly State Prison; the registry lists the cause as unknown/pending, age 52.
• Carlito Omar Soldiew-Acosta died June 22, 2024, at Dooly State Prison; the registry lists the cause as unknown/pending, age 38.
• Horace Rico Mosley died May 15, 2024, at Dooly State Prison; the registry lists the cause as unknown/pending, age 57.
• Ricky Lee Denney died May 7, 2024, at Dooly State Prison; the registry lists the cause as unknown/pending, age 68.
• Dwight Junior Lance died April 13, 2024, at Dooly State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Overdose, age 55.
• Raquon Javeyonte Tucker died March 22, 2024, at Dooly State Prison; the registry lists the cause as unknown/pending, age 26.
• Brian Lee Wainwright died January 4, 2024, at Dooly State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Homicide, age 59.
• Willie Frank Garrett died December 17, 2023, at Dooly State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical, age 53.

Among those entries the decedents range from 25 to 75 years old, and the recorded causes span homicide, overdose, suicide, Natural/Medical and unknown/pending. A November 25, 2025 investigation documented staffing collapse at Dooly, reporting housing units left without officer supervision for hours or entire shifts; a December 8, 2025 record notes Deputy Warden Charles Hudson was bitten by an inmate during handcuffing at the facility. Also during Chaney's tenure: an inmate was beaten by officers, including a Lt. Fudge and a CERT team, on April 7, 2025 after requesting protective transfer; a December 2025 case in which corrections officer cadet Julius Deshawn Williams Jr. was found with 640 grams of methamphetamine and later pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute; a March 12, 2025 arrest of Abraham Rivas on charges of impersonating a sheriff's officer to defraud a resident of $1,000 into his commissary account; an inmate, Magnum Jelani Neely, sentenced September 5, 2024 to 278 months for running an Augusta-area drug ring using contraband cellphones from inside Dooly; and a February 19, 2025 GDC deployment of cellphone-blocking technology, including at Dooly.

Reported allegations tied to the facility include a coroner's statement to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that Carlito Omar Soldiew-Acosta may have been dead more than 24 hours before his body was found; the AJC's report that James Yarbrough suffered uncontrolled diabetes for months and died of ketoacidosis in a case alleging medical malpractice; and a Georgia Public Broadcasting report in which Cody Bailey alleged medical staff "put his father's treatment on the back burner," contributing to his death from sepsis. The Georgia DOAS Risk Management settlement ledger, obtained via open records, records payouts tied to Dooly for incidents during this tenure: $25,000 (Shon L. Miller, 2016 incident), $5,000 (Eddie J. King, 2017), $1,000 (Anthony T. Hill, 2019), $3,100 (Rodney McCrary, 2020), $700,000 (James R. Yarbrough, 2020, linked to a documented death record), $3,500 (Thomas Andrew Whittle, 2023) and $1,000 (Amos Westmoreland, 2023).

Sources

• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — homicide listings for Dooly State Prison decedents and coverage of the Soldiew-Acosta and Yarbrough cases
• Georgia Public Broadcasting — October 1, 2024 report on federal Department of Justice deliberate-indifference findings, containing Cody Bailey's allegation about Dooly
• WGXA — December 2025 reporting on the Julius Deshawn Williams Jr. meth-smuggling case at Dooly
• Georgia DOAS Risk Management settlement ledger (Open Records) — liability payouts tied to Dooly State Prison
• Georgia Department of Corrections position and salary records for Mable Larose Chaney (2015–2025, plus entries dated November 22, 2023 and August 27, 2026)

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Sep 27, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.