Coffee, Tommy L

Tenure Summary

Tommy L. Coffee's documented career with the Georgia Department of Corrections runs from 2015 through at least 2022, all of it in custody-side positions: Correctional Officer (2015), Correctional Captain (2016), CSM Correctional Unit Manager (2017), and Deputy Warden across five consecutive years (2018–2022). His salary rose from $23,876.70 as an officer in 2015 to a peak of $61,914.77 in 2019, dipping to $52,342.30 by 2022. GDC position and salary records compiled by Georgia Prisoners' Speak do not attach a facility name to any of these postings, so the specific institutions where he served are not documented in this record.

No deaths are attributed to any facility-leadership tenure held by Coffee. The death records assembled by GPS list zero deaths by facility for his tenures, and no intelligence reports, intelligence events, or news items name him at any facility. His only appearance in the litigation record is as a defendant in a single federal case during his Deputy Warden years.

What happened on their watch

Coffee never held the Warden role in this record; his highest documented tier is Deputy Warden (2018–2022), a facility-deputy position. No deaths are attributed to those years, and no intel reports or events dated inside his tenure name him. The only adverse record overlapping his Deputy Warden period is the federal lawsuit below, filed in April 2021 — within the year he is listed as Deputy Warden with a salary of $60,976.48.

Litigation

• Ballard v. Matthews, No. 5:21-cv-00140, U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, filed April 23, 2021, terminated October 13, 2023. Court records list Coffee as a defendant on the docket. The available record does not include the claims, the relief sought, or any settlement or judgment amount, and the case is captioned against Matthews. No finding of liability against Coffee is recorded here.

Sources

• GDC position and salary records (2015–2022), compiled by Georgia Prisoners' Speak
• U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia docket, Ballard v. Matthews, No. 5:21-cv-00140 (via CourtListener)
• No news mentions, intel reports, or death records in this dataset name Coffee or are attributed to his tenures.

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