Colon, Barbra

Tenure Summary

Barbra Colon entered the Georgia Department of Corrections in behavioral health, holding counselor and supervising-counselor positions from 2015 through 2021, according to the position records reviewed. She moved into custody leadership as Deputy Warden at Augusta State Medical Prison, a title the records place at that facility across 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. A position record dated August 27, 2026 lists her as "Busi Support Analyst Spv" with no facility recorded; her status is active.

GPS attributes 238 deaths to her leadership tenure, all of them at Augusta State Medical Prison. No lawsuit naming Colon as a defendant appears in the records provided, and no news report in those records names her directly. During her deputy-warden years the facility was also the subject of a U.S. Department of Justice investigation and a federal contempt finding against the GDC, and it appears in an AJC homicide database and in a state liability settlement ledger.

What happened on their watch

Behavioral health counselor and supervising counselor — 2015–2021. Records list Colon as a behavioral health counselor from 2015 through 2018, then behavioral health counselor supervisor from 2019 through 2021, with salary rising from $34,416.77 to $48,971.20. No facility is recorded for these postings.

Augusta State Medical Prison — Deputy Warden, 2022–2025. This is the only leadership posting in the records, and it carries 238 deaths attributed, all at Augusta State Medical Prison. The causes on the registry lines for the most recent of those deaths include Natural/Medical, Unknown/Pending, and Accident. The following deaths are recorded at the facility during her tenure:

• Ronnie Williams died December 31, 2025, at Augusta State Medical Prison; the registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical, age 65.
• Alfonzo Foster died December 30, 2025, at Augusta State Medical Prison; the registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical, age 74.
• Gary Thomas Shaughnessy died December 21, 2025, at Augusta State Medical Prison; the registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical, age 71.
• Eugene Cornelius Edmond died December 1, 2025, at Augusta State Medical Prison; the registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical, age 65.
• Kenneth Craig Mccowan died November 24, 2025, at Augusta State Medical Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending, age 69.
• Kimmeth Devon Harden died November 20, 2025, at Augusta State Medical Prison; the registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical, age 55.
• Jeffery Jackson died October 29, 2025, at Augusta State Medical Prison; the registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical, age 63.
• Lloyd Lewis died October 19, 2025, at Augusta State Medical Prison; the registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical, age 62.
• Deonta Smith died October 10, 2025, at Augusta State Medical Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending, age 40.
• Johnnie Wildermuth died October 9, 2025, at Augusta State Medical Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending, age 44.
• Randy Clay died October 1, 2025, at Augusta State Medical Prison; the registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical, age 63.
• Trammell Lyonda Williams died September 28, 2025, at Augusta State Medical Prison; the registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical, age 47.
• Eric Deal died September 14, 2025, at Augusta State Medical Prison; the registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical, age 58.
• Treyvance Elliott Currie died August 31, 2025, at Augusta State Medical Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending, age 55.
• Michael Juan Campbell died August 19, 2025, at Augusta State Medical Prison; the registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical, age 56.
• Santos Sotelo died August 9, 2025, at Augusta State Medical Prison; the registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical, age 56.
• Phillip Megginson died August 6, 2025, at Augusta State Medical Prison; the registry lists the cause as Accident, age 57.
• Lloyd Hamilton Campbell died August 6, 2025, at Augusta State Medical Prison; the registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical, age 64.
• Juan Donnell Dunton died July 23, 2025, at Augusta State Medical Prison; the registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical, age 59.
• Marcus Donnell Hoskins died July 21, 2025, at Augusta State Medical Prison; the registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical, age 58.
• Anthony Young died July 18, 2025, at Augusta State Medical Prison; the registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical, age 71.
• Steven Wayne Glenn died July 15, 2025, at Augusta State Medical Prison; the registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical, age 71.
• Ines Jarquin-Cortes died July 10, 2025, at Augusta State Medical Prison; the registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical, age 40.
• Jerry Kyle Harper died June 24, 2025, at Augusta State Medical Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending, age 84.
• Jeffrey Gonzales Kelley died June 20, 2025, at Augusta State Medical Prison; the registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical, age 56.

Allegations recorded against the facility while she held the deputy-warden role include, per the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's reporting on the DOJ investigation, that Rodarick Lee Hayes had been attacked on multiple occasions before his death; that a correctional officer was accused of aiding the attack that killed Hayes; that Thomas Henry Giles was left in his smoke-filled cell for hours; that guards moved a prisoner with a violent history of strangulation into Eddie Gosier's cell, leading to Gosier's murder hours later; and that Jimmy Lucero was placed in solitary confinement without required medical checks and fell into a catatonic state. The DOJ's 2024 report on GDC violence and gang-run prisons, and a federal contempt finding over conditions in a high-security wing near Jackson, also fall within this period as recorded events.

Other events recorded at the facility during her tenure include the June 8, 2024 homicide of Lamar Wesson Phillips, age 39; the May 25, 2024 stabbing death of Rodarick Lee Hayes, age 29, in which two prisoners and a correctional officer were charged; the April 12, 2024 homicide of Thomas Preston Johnson, age 56; the June 8, 2023 death of Randall Joey Futch, 61, from delayed complications of blunt force head trauma; the March 30, 2023 strangulation of Amos Bennett Huff Jr., 60, in which his cellmate was charged; the July 21, 2022 death of Raphael Zachery Milligan, 41, from blunt force injuries and strangulation, for which another prisoner was charged; and the February 5, 2022 death of William Taylor Bodge, 61, from delayed complications of blunt-force head injuries. A GDC liability payout of $2,726.03 tied to the facility (2022 incident) appears in the GA DOAS Risk Management settlement ledger released under open records. Separately, Joseph Collins, an inmate at Augusta State Medical Prison, was sentenced in 2024 to 240 months in federal prison for directing a heroin and meth trafficking network from inside Georgia prisons. Federal litigation in Benning v. Oliver — which named GDC commissioner Tyrone Oliver, not Colon — produced a 2024 summary-judgment ruling and court orders on email-contact restrictions during this period.

Busi Support Analyst Spv — position record dated August 27, 2026. No facility is recorded and no accountability tier is given.

Sources

• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — DOJ investigation reporting and GDC homicide database entries on Rodarick Lee Hayes, Thomas Henry Giles, Eddie Gosier and Jimmy Lucero, dated January 21, 2025
• U.S. Department of Justice — 2024 report on violence and gang-run prisons in the Georgia Department of Corrections
• Georgia Department of Administrative Services Risk Management — settlement ledger (open records), Collins-Powell payout tied to Augusta State Medical Prison
• Federal court records — Benning v. Oliver orders and rulings on GDC email-contact restrictions
• Georgia Prisoners' Speak death registry — cause and date entries for deaths at Augusta State Medical Prison during the 2022–2025 deputy-warden tenure

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Oct 11, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.