Clark, Reginald Tyrone

Tenure Summary

Reginald Tyrone Clark entered the Georgia Department of Corrections in 2015 as a corrections officer and moved up the custody ladder — lieutenant (2016–2017), captain (2018–2019), correctional unit manager (2020–2022) — before his first facility-leadership posting as Deputy Warden at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison (GDCP) in 2023. He carried that title through the 2023, 2024 and 2025 salary years, with a single-day Deputy Warden record at Baldwin State Prison dated November 22, 2023, and has held the post of Deputy Warden of Security at GDCP since July 16, 2026. GPS personnel records list him as active.

GPS attributes 61 deaths to Clark's leadership tenures, every one of them at GDCP. He is a named defendant in a federal lawsuit filed in September 2023 that remains pending. During his tenure the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported on GDCP's physical condition, on contraband-driven violence and on cellphones seized from a prisoner accused of running a drug network, and GPS's event records log a fatal stabbing with a delayed officer response and a breakdown in death reporting at the facility.

What happened on their watch

Baldwin State Prison — Deputy Warden (November 22, 2023). Records carry a single-day Deputy Warden entry at Baldwin State Prison dated November 22, 2023. No deaths are attributed to that posting.

GDCP — Deputy Warden (2023–2025). During these years the records include a March 25, 2023 intel report — a family member's account, not a verified finding — disputing the prison's suicide ruling in a death at GDCP and stating the person had received a death threat three days earlier, was supposed to be in isolation, and asked for medical help minutes before being found but was told to wait until after count. A January 21, 2025 AJC report described the death of Brandon Trace Burrell, who the AJC says was assaulted by another inmate while under the effects of methamphetamine and suffered numerous stab wounds; the same outlet reported that Charles Lee Broady Jr., despite requesting protection from threatening gang members, was moved to a location where six gang members attacked him with razor blades. In June 2024 the AJC reported that newly convicted Shane Tassi was photographed with a homemade shank and a contraband cell phone within days of arriving; in September 2024 it reported officers had seized 35 cellphones from David "Toro" Zavala at the time of his guilty plea. On March 31, 2025 the AJC reported that consultants hired by the governor found almost every part of GDCP vandalized, with widespread infrastructure failures. GPS's event records for the period log an April 6, 2025 fatal stabbing witnessed by multiple inmates with a 30-minute delay before officer response and a witness reportedly coerced to silence; an April 2024 incident in which Ronald Allen suffered cold injury to his hands separating frozen beef patties with inadequate protective equipment; and an October 24, 2025 entry describing deaths deleted from the inmate database, no autopsy ordered and missing witness statements. GPS's event records describe Mark Smith's June 2025 death as one in which the Parkinson's patient's medical transfer requests were missed and he was found dead in his cell; the registry lists his cause as Natural/Medical.

GDCP — Deputy Warden of Security (from July 16, 2026). Records in this period center on the scheduled September 16, 2026 execution of Stacey Humphreys: clemency was denied September 15, 2026, and his attorneys filed a notice of appeal to the Georgia Supreme Court the same day. An earlier execution date of December 17, 2025 fell during Clark's Deputy Warden tenure, when a federal judge declined to halt it on December 11, 2025. WRDW reported September 9, 2026 that Humphreys' lawyers argued two State Board of Pardons and Paroles members had conflicts of interest, and The Georgia Virtue reported September 1, 2026 that a Fulton County judge ruled Board member Kimberly McCoy had one. On September 11, 2026, per WGXA and event records, Deivon Waller was sentenced to 240 months and a $2,000 fine, Asa James Ward to 56 months and a $1,500 fine, and Tristahn Ash to 92 months and a $1,500 fine, in connection with drone-dropped methamphetamine, marijuana and phones. On September 17, 2026, a Facebook video shared by the Human and Civil Rights Coalition of Georgia carried former officer Kerri-Ann Crumbley's account of hiring and retention problems and of being refused, as against policy, things she could have done for an incarcerated patient at a hospital post.

Deaths during Clark's GDCP leadership

• Thomas Harold Broach died August 22, 2026, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison; GPS's registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending.
• Michael Wayne Forker died August 8, 2026, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison; the cause is listed as Unknown/Pending.
• Tommy L Tucker died August 6, 2026, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison; the cause is listed as Unknown/Pending.
• Walter Brown died August 3, 2026, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison; the cause is listed as Unknown/Pending.
• Juan Jose Rodriquez died December 10, 2025, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison; the cause is listed as Overdose.
• Tabaya Marshall Gray died November 27, 2025, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison; the cause is listed as Unknown/Pending.
• Charles Ramen Coppeak died November 19, 2025, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison; the cause is listed as Overdose.
• Christopher Wayne Crook died August 5, 2025, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison; the cause is listed as Unknown/Pending.
• Daniel Claude Callahan died July 26, 2025, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison; the cause is listed as Natural/Medical.
• Woodrow Wilson Hodges died July 14, 2025, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison; the cause is listed as Natural/Medical.
• Jacob Scott Wilcox died June 28, 2025, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison; the cause is listed as Natural/Medical.
• Mark Smith died June 7, 2025, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison; the cause is listed as Natural/Medical.
• David Octavious Robbs died April 30, 2025, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison; the cause is listed as Unknown/Pending.
• Michael Scott West died March 6, 2025, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison; the cause is listed as Accident.
• William Rhodes died February 20, 2025, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison; the cause is listed as Homicide.
• John Irvin Jr Tidd died December 15, 2024, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison; the cause is listed as Suicide.
• Willie Henry Ponder died November 8, 2024, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison; the cause is listed as Unknown/Pending.
• Thomas Jr Williams died November 7, 2024, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison; the cause is listed as Unknown/Pending.
• Stephen Allen Hester died November 6, 2024, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison; the cause is listed as Unknown/Pending.
• Joshua Mark Holliday died October 21, 2024, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison; the cause is listed as Suicide.
• Albert Stinson died September 24, 2024, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison; the cause is listed as Unknown/Pending.
• Rodriquez Demorris Garrett died September 6, 2024, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison; the cause is listed as Suicide.
• Christopher Shawn Burnett died July 14, 2024, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison; the cause is listed as Suicide.
• Edgar Jaramillo died July 8, 2024, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison; the cause is listed as Unknown/Pending.
• Gregory Lindsey died June 28, 2024, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison; the cause is listed as Unknown/Pending.

Litigation

• Jackson v. Deputy Warden Reginald Clark, No. 5:23-cv-00333 (GAMD), filed September 5, 2023; status pending, no recorded disposition or outcome amount. Court records via CourtListener.

Sources

• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — reporting on GDCP conditions (March 31, 2025), the Burrell death and Broady attack (January 21, 2025), the Zavala cellphone seizures (September 5, 2024) and the Tassi contraband incident (June 22, 2024)
• WGXA — drone contraband sentencings at GDCP (September 11, 2026)
• WRDW and The Georgia Virtue — parole board conflict-of-interest rulings in the Humphreys case (September 2026)
• Facebook — Human and Civil Rights Coalition of Georgia, share of Kerri-Ann Crumbley video (September 17, 2026)
• Court records — Jackson v. Deputy Warden Reginald Clark, 5:23-cv-00333 (GAMD), via CourtListener
• GPS death registry and facility event log — GDCP deaths, incident and execution records during Clark's tenure

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Oct 18, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.