Dennis, Pamela

Tenure Summary

Pamela Dennis spent roughly a decade inside the Georgia Department of Corrections in behavioral-health roles before moving into facility administration. GDC position records show her as a behavioral health counselor from 2015 through 2023 — titled BEH Health/Counselor (WL) in 2015, Behavioral Hlth Counselor 3 for most of the following years, and Behavioral Hlth Counselor 2 in 2022 — with annual salaries rising from $27,639.20 to $42,454.56. Those records do not associate her staff-level posts with a specific facility, so no facility-level accountability attaches to that period; her role and dates are the extent of what the records establish.

Her first facility-linked record places her at Long Unit as a Behavioral Hlth Counselor 3 on a single dated entry of November 22, 2023. She was promoted to Correctional Asst. Supt at Long Unit effective for 2024 and 2025, the only leadership-tier postings in her file. During her leadership tenure at Long Unit, one death is attributed to the facility: 43-year-old Cameron Ryan Paquette, who died on February 13, 2024, while Dennis held the Correctional Asst. Supt role. That is the entirety of the leadership-tier death count attributed to her — one death, at one facility. No lawsuits naming her as a defendant appear in the records, and no intel reports or intel events dated within her Long Unit tenure are recorded.

What happened on their watch

Long Unit — Correctional Asst. Supt (2024–2025). GDC records attribute one death to Long Unit during Dennis's tenure as assistant superintendent: Cameron Ryan Paquette, age 43, died on February 13, 2024, roughly six weeks into her first year in the role. The death record logs the cause under category 1. Her file contains no public narrative for the death, no lawsuit filed against her in connection with it, and no intel report or logged event at Long Unit dated within her tenure. The records therefore establish the fact and timing of the death and Dennis's position at the time — no more; they contain no finding of fault, no investigative conclusion, and no family allegation that would attach to her.

The same records show Dennis at Long Unit in a non-leadership capacity — Behavioral Hlth Counselor 3 — on a single dated entry of November 22, 2023, immediately before the assistant superintendent postings. Consistent with the data's coverage rules, that counselor period carries no death attributions and no intel items here; the only facts documented are the title, facility, and date.

A further record lists the title "Asst Supt, Correctional" at Long Unit dated August 27, 2026, at an accountability tier the data does not classify. It carries no death attribution and falls outside the death-attribution window; it is noted only as a listed position entry.

The earlier stretch of Dennis's career — 2015 through 2023 as a behavioral health counselor — is documented in position and salary records without a named facility. No deaths during those years are attributed to her, and because those years were not facility-leadership postings, this profile makes no claim about incident levels at any facility during them.

Sources

• Georgia Department of Corrections position and salary records (2015–2025), compiled by Georgia Prisoners' Speak — career titles, facilities, and pay for Dennis's behavioral-health and assistant-superintendent roles
• GDC death records for Long Unit — death of Cameron Ryan Paquette, age 43, on February 13, 2024, logged as cause category 1, with Dennis recorded as Correctional Asst. Supt at the time
• Georgia Prisoners' Speak personnel database — Long Unit facility linkage (facility ID 135) and the November 22, 2023 counselor entry
• No court filings, DOJ findings, audit reports, or news reports naming Dennis appear in the records reviewed for this profile

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.