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Dills, Allen L
Status: active
Profile written August 9, 2026
Current Position
Director For The North Region
Salary
$114,663
2025 · state payroll
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
Allen L. Dills began his Georgia Department of Corrections career in 2002 as an Accountant Paraprofessional at Arrendale State Prison, later returning there as Personnel Manager. He served briefly as Deputy Warden of Administration at Phillips State Prison in 2012 before moving into central-office business analyst roles. In 2018 he became Correctional Superintendent — and then Warden — at Arrendale Transitional Center, the first of several facility-leader posts. His tenure as a warden at two prisons coincided with 28 deaths: ten at Arrendale State Prison (2021‑2022) and eighteen at the Metro Reentry Facility (2023 through mid‑January 2026). No death was recorded at the transitional center during his time there. Dills has not been named as a defendant in any lawsuit that GPS can identify, but the homicide of Angela Anderson at Arrendale State Prison and the large concentration of medically fragile individuals who died at Metro Reentry give his leadership record serious accountability weight.What happened on their watch
Arrendale Transitional Center (2018‑2020)
As Superintendent and later Warden 1, Dills oversaw a facility that, per GPS records, reported no deaths during his three-year tenure.Arrendale State Prison — Warden 1/3 (2021‑2022)
Ten people died during Dills’ two years as warden. Among them was 39‑year‑old Angela Denise Anderson, who was strangled to death in the mental‑health unit on September 11, 2022. The Atlanta Journal‑Constitution’s prison‑homicides investigation documented her cause of death as “asphyxia due to neck and chest compression”; another prisoner was arrested but had not been indicted as of early 2025. In January 2021, Lisa J. Mitchell, 47, died by suicide — GDC’s own coding, obtained by the UCLA Law Behind Bars Data Project, classified the death as suicide. The remaining deaths were predominantly classified as natural by GDC or the county medical examiner, though the Department labeled Natasha Arnold’s October 2021 death as “Undetermined.” The decedents ranged in age from 30 to 62. Although GPS notes that systemic complaints about medical neglect and retaliation for reporting poor conditions later surfaced at Arrendale (including the discovery of a decomposing body in a hot cell in 2025), those incidents date from well after Dills left the facility.Metro Reentry Facility — Warden 3 (2023‑2026)
Eighteen deaths occurred during Dills’ three‑year wardenship, all among male prisoners. The vast majority were from natural causes, often involving extremely advanced disease. DeKalb County Medical Examiner case notes describe a series of deaths from cardiac conditions, metastatic cancers, and end‑stage organ failure; several men were under hospice care, and at least one — John Whitfield, 61 — was in hospice without an on‑site nurse. The deceased were often elderly: Bobby C. Gayton was 81, Benjamin August Harter was 85, Larry Jones was 76. One death, that of Timothy Crumbley, 65, was ruled an accident: he suffered a fatal brain hemorrhage after a fall inside the facility on September 30, 2024. Cause‑category‑6 entries (insufficient data in GPS records) appear for a handful of deaths, including two on the same day in January 2024. The final death under Dills at Metro Reentry was Robert Rodriguez Johnson, 46, on January 1, 2026, from cardiac causes. Two weeks later, on January 17, 2026, after Dills had already moved to a regional director role, another man — Silas Westbrook — died shortly after being transferred to the facility; the GDC Office of Professional Standards opened an investigation, but that death falls outside the warden‑tenure window.Litigation
No lawsuits naming Allen L. Dills as a defendant appear in GPS records.Sources
- Atlanta Journal‑Constitution — Georgia Prison Homicides Investigation; cause of death for Angela Denise Anderson (2022)
- UCLA Law Behind Bars Data Project — custodial mortality dataset (GA‑Individual.csv), providing GDC’s own cause‑of‑death coding for 2021 deaths at Arrendale State Prison
- DeKalb County Medical Examiner case files — multiple natural‑cause determinations for Metro Reentry Facility decedents, added via GPS ORR intake records
- GPS intelligence reports — death records, career history, and facility‑level death counts for Arrendale State Prison and Metro Reentry Facility
Positions Held
| Title | Facility | Tenure |
|---|---|---|
| Director for the North Region | 2026-06-01 → present | |
| Assistant Director for the North Region | 2026-01-16 → present | |
| WARDEN 3 | METRO REENTRY FACILITY | 2023-01-01 → present |
| WARDEN 3 | Arrendale State Prison | 2022-01-01 → 2022-12-31 |
| Warden | Arrendale State Prison | 2021-08-01 → 2024-12-31 |
| WARDEN 1 | Arrendale State Prison | 2021-01-01 → 2021-12-31 |
| WARDEN 1 | ARRENDALE TRANSITIONAL CENTER | 2019-01-01 → 2020-12-31 |
| CORRECTIONAL SUPERINTENDENT | ARRENDALE TRANSITIONAL CENTER | 2018-01-01 → 2018-12-31 |
| BUSI SUPPORT ANALYST 3 | 2016-01-01 → 2017-12-31 | |
| BUSINESS OPERATIONS | 2015-01-01 → 2015-12-31 | |
| Deputy Warden of Administration | PHILLIPS STATE PRISON | 2012-01-01 → 2012-12-31 |
| Personnel Manager | Arrendale State Prison | 2009-01-01 → 2009-12-31 |
| Accountant Paraprofessional | Arrendale State Prison | 2002-01-01 → 2002-12-31 |
Deaths attributed during tenure
32 people died at facilities under Dills, Allen L's leadership.
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