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Dills, Allen L
Status: active
Profile written May 31, 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 entered the Georgia Department of Corrections in 2002 as an Accountant Paraprofessional at Arrendale State Prison and later held a Personnel Manager role there. After a year as Deputy Warden of Administration at Phillips State Prison in 2012, he cycled through business-support analyst roles before assuming leadership positions in corrections. Dills served as Correctional Superintendent and then Warden 1 at the Arrendale Transitional Center (2018–2020), before becoming Warden 1 and later Warden 3 at Arrendale State Prison (2021–2022). From 2023 into January 2026 he was Warden 3 at the Metro Reentry Facility, after which he moved into regional director-level roles in the department.GPS records attribute 28 deaths to facilities where Dills held a facility-leadership role: 10 at Arrendale State Prison during his tenure as warden, and 18 at the Metro Reentry Facility while he was warden there. No lawsuit naming Dills as a defendant appears in the GPS intelligence database.
What happened on their watch
Arrendale State Prison — Warden (2021–2022)
Dills served as Warden 1 at the women’s prison from January 2021 through December 2021, and then as Warden 3 during 2022. GPS records show that ten incarcerated women died during this period. The decedents ranged in age from 30 to 62. All but one death are listed under cause‑category 6, which commonly denotes natural causes, though the specifics are not publicly detailed. The exception was Angela Denise Anderson, 39, whose death in September 2022 was investigated by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and found to have been a homicide: the cause was asphyxia due to neck and chest compression. An inmate, Leticia Land, was later arrested in connection with the strangling. No systemic incident or uprising inside the prison was documented during Dills’ tenure, but GPS reports that in April 2025 — years after his move — incarcerated women at the facility described a pervasive fear of retaliation when reporting medical neglect, hinting at long‑running conditions that predated that reporting.Metro Reentry Facility — Warden (2023–2025)
Dills served as Warden 3 at the Metro Reentry Facility in DeKalb County from January 2023 through January 15, 2026. During those three years, GPS records attribute 18 deaths at the facility to his leadership tenure. All 18 are classified under cause‑category 6. The decedents’ ages spanned from 36 to 85. Among them were Lakeith Shunta Bonner (40), Richard Kevin Meadows (63), Timothy Crumbley (65), and Robert Rodriguez Johnson (46), whose death on January 1, 2026, is the last recorded during Dills’ time as warden. Two days after he was promoted away from the warden post, Silas Westbrook — an inmate transferred from Washington State Prison following a riot — suffered a medical emergency upon arrival at Metro Reentry and died on January 17, 2026. The GDC Office of Professional Standards opened an investigation into Westbrook’s death, and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation crime lab was tasked with determining the official cause.Phillips State Prison — Deputy Warden (2012)
Dills held the role of Deputy Warden of Administration at Phillips State Prison for the calendar year 2012. GPS records show no deaths attributed to his tenure there. Years later, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported allegations that officers at Phillips had arranged for at least one incarcerated person to be brought to a lockdown unit where he was fatally stabbed, and that another individual was assaulted in a mental health ward. The alleged dates of those incidents are not specified in the available intelligence, and they have not been linked through GPS records to Dills’ brief deputy‑warden tenure.Sources
- GPS intelligence database (personnel records, death counts, and facility‑tenure attribution)
- Atlanta Journal‑Constitution — Georgia Prison Homicides Investigation (detail on the asphyxia death of Angela Anderson at Arrendale State Prison)
- GPS intel records — death events, investigations (Silas Westbrook, Sheqweetta Vaughan, Hallie Reed, Sherry Joyce), and facility‑conditions reports (C‑Unit hazards, retaliation allegations)
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 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
28 people died at facilities under Dills, Allen L's leadership.
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