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Dogan, Helen R
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Profile written September 6, 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
Helen R. Dogan appears in GPS records first as a business operations employee in 2015, with a listed salary of $39,038.40, then as deputy warden at Washington State Prison in annual position records from 2016 through 2025. Her listed salary in that deputy warden role rose from $41,432.99 in 2016 to $70,729.44 in 2025. GPS records attribute 42 deaths at Washington State Prison to her facility deputy tenure; the structured record contains no lawsuits naming Dogan as a defendant. The positions table lists her deputy warden posting through 2025, though the sampled death records continue into 2026 with Dogan coded as deputy warden.
What happened on their watch
Washington State Prison — Deputy Warden (annual records 2016–2025). Dogan held the deputy warden role at Washington State Prison, a facility the GPS notes identify as a DOJ-CRIPA named site. GPS attributes 42 deaths at the facility to that posting. The sampled death records include several documented homicides: Dontavious Carter, listed with a GDC-released January 2025 mortality cause of “Homicide due to a Puncture Wound to the Heart”; Michael Lareco Daniel, whose Washington County death certificate lists homicide by sharp force trauma to the head; and Jacob Cole Henson, whose death certificate states “gunshot wounds while fighting with prison guards.” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s homicide investigation also listed Devonte Tiger Williams, Michael Lee Jackson, and Marquis Reshawn Jefferson, among others.
The sample also includes drug toxicity deaths, including Dajhmere Hall, whose GBI autopsy report states acute oxycodone toxicity and accident manner, and Benjamin Horne, whose GBI report states methamphetamine toxicity and accident manner. Other sampled deaths involved natural causes, suicide, undetermined causes, and cases in which GBI declined to perform an examination.
The January 2026 riot at Washington State Prison appears prominently in the records. GPS lists Ahmod Hatcher, Jimmy Lee Trammell, and Teddy Dewayne Jackson as killed on January 11, 2026. A Washington County death certificate for Jackson states homicide by stab wound of the torso. Silas Westbrook, injured in the riot, died January 17 after transfer to Metro Reentry Facility; his death certificate lists manner as homicide with delayed complications of multiple sharp force injuries. Intel reports state that twelve inmates were later charged with felony murder and related offenses.
In June 2026, the sample includes Isreal Moses Jones, Courtney Davis, and Deshawn Poole. GDC’s public account described Jones and Davis as undetermined with no signs of foul play, while GPS notes record a confidential-source account classifying Jones as a homicide and state that a GBI autopsy was pending. The notes also preserve a witness account alleging slow facility response and a hung-up wellness-check call in Poole’s case.
Broader allegations tied to the facility include WGXA reporting that Luis Alfonso Ramirez directed a drug trafficking network from Washington State Prison using contraband cellphones; the federal investigation allegedly involved seizures of 35 kilograms of methamphetamine and 3.5 kilograms of fentanyl. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and 41NBC reported on a U.S. DOJ investigation describing deliberate indifference to violence, drug use, extortion, and sexual abuse. Former inmates told 13WMAZ that overcrowding, chronic staffing shortages, gang dominance, and lack of programming made the facility dangerous. GPS records also include a family report of delayed legal mail and conditions complaints. These are allegations from external reports and have not been adjudicated in the provided records.
Sources
- GPS personnel and death-records database — Dogan, Helen R position history and Washington State Prison death attributions
- Washington County coroner records and Georgia death certificates — Westbrook, Daniel, Henson, and others
- GBI Division of Forensic Sciences records and open-records responses — autopsy and declination reports
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution — Georgia prison homicides investigation; January 2026 riot and DOJ findings coverage
- WGXA — Ramirez drug trafficking indictment; Washington State Prison disturbance and family allegations
- 41NBC — DOJ findings; Washington State Prison deaths
- 13WMAZ — January 2026 riot, former inmate allegations, and criminal charges
- 11Alive — gang-affiliation allegation
- WFXL — twelve inmates charged in gang-affiliated disturbance
- GDC official mortality data and press statements referenced in GPS records
Positions Held
| Title | Facility | Tenure |
|---|---|---|
| DEPUTY WARDEN | WASHINGTON STATE PRISON | 2016-01-01 → present |
| Deputy Warden | WASHINGTON STATE PRISON | 2023-11-22 → 2023-11-22 |
| BUSINESS OPERATIONS | 2015-01-01 → 2015-12-31 |
Deaths attributed during tenure
42 people died at facilities under Dogan, Helen R's leadership.
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