Clark, LEE C

Tenure Summary

Lee C. Clark has worked within the Georgia Department of Corrections since at least 2001, rising from Counselor roles at Montgomery State Prison and Georgia State Prison through a Chief Counselor posting at Emanuel Women's Facility, a behavioral health counselor role at Smith State Prison, and then a Deputy Warden track beginning in 2016. GPS records show Clark held the Correctional Superintendent title from 2021 through at least April 2025, before transitioning to a Special Assistant to the Warden role at Rogers State Prison beginning May 2025. The structured records do not attribute any deaths to facilities during Clark's leadership-tier tenures. However, Clark's career has intersected with two of Georgia's most troubled facilities — Smith State Prison and Rogers State Prison — during periods of documented violence, contraband crises, and a suspicious in-custody death, and Clark is named as a defendant in three terminated federal civil cases and one terminated federal criminal case.

What Happened on Their Watch

Smith State Prison — Behavioral Health/Counselor (2015)
Clark held a behavioral health counselor role at Smith State Prison in 2015, earning $42,186. GPS records show no deaths attributed to Clark's tenure in that staff-level role. The intel record does note that a federal criminal case, United States v. Clark (2:15-cr-00008, GASD), was filed on April 8, 2015 — the same year Clark was posted at Smith — and closed May 24, 2016. The structured records do not specify the charges or outcome.

Deputy Warden — Facility Unspecified (2016–2017); Rogers State Prison (2018); Facility Unspecified (2019); Rogers State Prison (2020)
Clark served as Deputy Warden across multiple years, with facility assignments confirmed at Rogers State Prison for 2018 and 2020. GPS records show no deaths attributed to Clark's Deputy Warden tenures at Rogers. The structured records do document the death of Taylor Hunt at Rogers State Prison on approximately September 1, 2024 — after Clark had left the Deputy Warden role there — with GPS event records noting that GDC classified Hunt's death as a suicide despite physical evidence described as including ligature marks, broken bones, bruises, and puncture and stab wounds. That death falls outside Clark's confirmed Rogers tenure.

Correctional Superintendent — Facility Unspecified (2021–2025)
Clark held the Correctional Superintendent title from 2021 through April 2025. The structured records do not identify the specific facility or facilities Clark superintended during this period. GPS records show no deaths directly attributed to Clark's Superintendent tenures in the structured data. The intel record does flag that two civil cases styled Lee v. Clark (1:21-cv-03858 and 1:21-cv-03854, GAND) were filed September 17, 2021 — at the outset of Clark's Superintendent tenure — and terminated in 2022 and 2023 respectively. No outcome amounts are recorded.

Special Assistant to the Warden — Rogers State Prison (May 2025–present)
Clark's most recent confirmed posting is Rogers State Prison in a Special Assistant to the Warden capacity. GPS records show no deaths attributed to this role to date.

Litigation

• United States v. Clark, 2:15-cr-00008 (GASD) — filed April 8, 2015; terminated May 24, 2016. No charges or outcome specified in GPS records.
• Lee v. Clark, 1:21-cv-03858 (GAND) — filed September 17, 2021; terminated March 21, 2022. No outcome amount recorded.
• Lee v. Clark, 1:21-cv-03854 (GAND) — filed September 17, 2021; terminated March 24, 2023. No outcome amount recorded.
• Lundquist v. Clark Washington PC, 1:11-cv-03179 (GAND) — filed September 20, 2011; terminated March 28, 2012. No outcome amount recorded.

Sources

• GPS records — positions table, deaths-during-tenure table, intel events, and intel reports for Lee C. Clark
• CourtListener — United States v. Clark, 2:15-cr-00008; Lee v. Clark, 1:21-cv-03858 and 1:21-cv-03854; Lundquist v. Clark Washington PC, 1:11-cv-03179
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — reporting on Smith State Prison homicides, contraband schemes, warden Brian Adams arrest, Aureon Grace shooting, and systemic GDC conditions
• The Marshall Project — reporting on Georgia prison understaffing and conditions at Smith State Prison
• Georgia Public Broadcasting — reporting on drone contraband smuggling and GDC legislative testimony
• In These Times — reporting on Georgia prison strike allegations
• The Georgia Virtue — reporting on conditions at Georgia State Prison
• WTOC — reporting on April 2026 gang-related altercation at Smith State Prison

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on May 6, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.