Cook, Matasha L

Tenure Summary

Matasha L. Cook spent nearly a decade in administrative and clinical support roles within the Georgia Department of Corrections — moving from Business Operations Specialist (2015) through Administrative Assistant Supervisor (2016–2019) and Behavioral Health Counselor 2 (2020–2022) before shifting to Financial Operations Generalist 3 in 2023. In 2024, Cook crossed into a facility-leadership accountability tier, taking the Deputy Warden post at Lee State Prison, where GPS records show three deaths occurred during her tenure through at least September 2025. No lawsuits name Cook as a defendant, and no intel reports or news mentions are on file.

What Happened on Their Watch

Lee State Prison — Deputy Warden, 2024–present

GPS records attribute three deaths at Lee State Prison to the period of Cook's Deputy Warden tenure. The first, Christopher Aaron Godfrey, 40, died on January 16, 2024 — within weeks of Cook assuming the role. Daniel Emmett Ivey, 26, died on February 15, 2024. Quinton Pearson, 45, died on September 8, 2025. All three deaths are coded under cause category 6 in GPS records; no further cause detail, notes, or supplemental findings are recorded in the structured data. The deaths span two calendar years and include one victim in his mid-twenties. No intel reports, internal investigations, or news coverage are on file with GPS for any of these incidents, and no pattern beyond the shared cause category can be established from available records.

Sources

• GPS records — deaths attributed to facility-deputy tenure at Lee State Prison (2024–2025), personnel position and salary data for Cook, Matasha L.

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.