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Davis-Bragg, Chabara L
On GDC's 2025 payroll
Profile written September 23, 2026
This profile reflects positional accountability — this individual held the leadership roles shown during the dates shown, during which the listed deaths or lawsuits occurred. Inclusion does not constitute a legal finding of personal culpability for any specific incident.
Tenure Summary
Chabara L Davis-Bragg's GDC career began in 2015 as a behavioral health counselor (WL), moving to Behavioral Health Counselor 3 in 2016 and to Behavioral Health Counselor Supervisor from 2017 through 2020. In 2021 she shifted to the custody side as a Correctional Unit Manager — a unit-supervisor-tier post with no facility assigned in GDC records — and beginning in 2022 she held the Deputy Warden role at Johnson State Prison, a posting carried in annual records through 2025 (salary $70,578.15) and in a further personnel record dated August 27, 2026. She is listed as active.
GDC records attribute 61 deaths to Johnson State Prison during her deputy-warden tenure there; all 61 are attributed to that facility. No lawsuit in the records names her personally as a defendant. On her watch at Johnson, the documented record includes homicides, a state liability settlement, a failed food-safety inspection, and an escape that produced no GDC news release.
What happened on their watch
Correctional Unit Manager (2021) — Records list this unit-supervisor-tier position without an assigned facility. No deaths are attributed to this period, and the data does not document incidents for it.
Deputy Warden, Johnson State Prison (2022–2026) — GDC records attribute 61 deaths at Johnson State Prison during this posting, the full per-facility total. The named decedent list provided spans from age 23 (Russel Lee Townsend, July 13, 2022) to 91 (Richard Charles Bishop, December 2, 2024), with a large share of the named decedents in their 60s and 70s.
Individual deaths recorded at the facility include Michael Page, 53, who died June 29, 2023; per GDC incident records the manner was ruled a homicide but the cause was not stated and the death certificate had not been received. Donald Prescott Lee, 41, died November 16, 2023 from blunt force trauma to the head, neck, and torso. Kenneth Adam Robinson, 50, died August 10, 2024; incident report data shows a homicide and the death certificate had not been received.
Other documented events at Johnson while Davis-Bragg held the Deputy Warden role: an escape on April 5, 2023, which per GPS records drew no GDC news release; a food-safety inspection on December 1, 2023 in which the facility scored 64/100, with inspectors documenting rats, roaches, broken kitchen equipment and contaminated trays; and a July 21, 2023 GDC ribbon-cutting for a new 4,800-square-foot Medical Intensive Infirmary at Johnson, announced alongside Commissioner Tyrone Oliver as part of 524 added beds across four facilities.
On October 9, 2023, the state recorded a $100,000 liability payout tied to Johnson State Prison (2023 incident), per the Georgia DOAS Risk Management settlement ledger; the matter is identified as Andrick Jackson.
On January 21, 2025, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported a lawsuit over the death of David Lamar Henegar at Johnson State Prison. The suit alleges Henegar was choked over the course of hours by a cellmate with mental illness who had previously attacked him, and that officers failed to intervene despite neighboring prisoners screaming for help. These are allegations in a filed suit, not adjudicated findings. GPS records list Davis-Bragg's role on the filing date as Deputy Warden; the records do not name her as a defendant.
No news mentions naming Davis-Bragg directly appear in the records provided.
Sources
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution — "GA prison homicides" investigative list; January 21, 2025 lawsuit allegations concerning David Lamar Henegar at Johnson State Prison
- Georgia Department of Corrections — personnel and salary records, 2015–2026 (titles, tiers, facility assignments)
- Georgia Department of Administrative Services, Risk Management settlement ledger (open records) — $100,000 payout tied to Johnson State Prison, 2023 (Andrick Jackson)
- GDC incident and death records — Michael Page (June 29, 2023), Donald Prescott Lee (November 16, 2023), Kenneth Adam Robinson (August 10, 2024); April 5, 2023 escape at Johnson State Prison
- Georgia food-safety inspection records for Johnson State Prison — December 1, 2023 (score 64/100)
- GDC / NELSON Worldwide announcement — Medical Intensive Infirmary ribbon-cutting and modular housing addition, July 21, 2023
Positions Held
| Title | Facility | Tenure |
|---|---|---|
| Deputy Warden | JOHNSON STATE PRISON | 2026-08-27 → present |
| DEPUTY WARDEN | JOHNSON STATE PRISON | 2022-01-01 → present |
| Deputy Warden | JOHNSON STATE PRISON | 2023-11-22 → 2023-11-22 |
| CORRECTIONAL UNIT MANAGER | 2021-01-01 → 2021-12-31 | |
| BEHAVIORAL HLTH COUNSELOR SPV | 2017-01-01 → 2020-12-31 | |
| BEHAVIORAL HLTH COUNSELOR 3 | 2016-01-01 → 2016-12-31 | |
| BEH HEALTH/COUNSELOR (WL) | 2015-01-01 → 2015-12-31 |
Deaths attributed during tenure
61 people died at facilities under Davis-Bragg, Chabara L's leadership.
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