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Douglas, Jalaludin K
Status: active
Profile written August 30, 2026
Salary
$76,320
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
Douglas, Jalaludin K has held multiple Georgia Department of Corrections roles since 2000. He worked as a correctional officer at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison in 2000 and again in 2015–2016, then held CSM Correctional Lieutenant posts from 2017 through 2022. He served as Correctional Unit Manager at Georgia Diagnostic from 2023 through 2025, and on April 16, 2026, he became Deputy Warden of Security at the Special Management Unit. GPS records attribute one death to his facility-leader tenure: Antony Ramon Penick, 32, who died on May 30, 2026, at the Special Management Unit while Douglas held the deputy warden of security role. The structured records list no lawsuits naming Douglas as a defendant.What happened on their watch
Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison — Correctional Unit Manager, 2023–2025
The authoritative deaths-by-facility table records no deaths attributed to Douglas’s tenure at Georgia Diagnostic. But facility-level records and Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporting during overlapping years describe a facility under severe strain. GPS reports list Georgia Diagnostic holding 4,540 people in a facility designed for 800 — 568% of design capacity. According to the AJC, newly convicted inmate Shane Tassi possessed a homemade shank and contraband cell phone within days of arriving in 2024, and the publication reported that almost every part of the prison had been vandalized. GPS event records note the June 1, 2025 death of Mark Smith, described as a death from neglect at Georgia Diagnostic, and an April 6, 2025 fatal stabbing with a reported 30-minute delay before officer response. These are facility-level records; the structured input does not attribute these deaths to Douglas or name him in them.Special Management Unit — Deputy Warden of Security, 2026 onward
GPS records attribute one death to Douglas’s leadership tenure at the Special Management Unit: Antony Ramon Penick, 32, died on May 30, 2026, while Douglas held the title Deputy Warden of Security. The record lists Penick’s cause category as 6 but does not provide a stated cause of death. Broader documentation in the file includes AJC reporting describing GDC misrepresentation to federal investigators, lawmakers, and a federal judge, including backdated review forms and post-mortem entries for deceased SMU prisoner Ricardo Daughtry; those reports were published in May 2026, during Douglas’s SMU posting, though the underlying events are not independently dated in the structured record. The DOJ, as summarized in the file, found Georgia prisons inhumane and described GDC obstructing investigators. GPS records do not connect those systemic findings to Douglas individually.Sources
- Georgia Prisoners’ Speak structured records — positions, attributed death count, and decedent identity.
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution — investigative coverage of Georgia prison homicides, contraband phones, falsified records, and prison conditions.
- U.S. Department of Justice — report on conditions in Georgia prisons, as referenced in GPS records.
- Federal court records — contempt order and Special Management Unit settlement, referenced in GPS event logs.
Positions Held
| Title | Facility | Tenure |
|---|---|---|
| Deputy Warden | SPECIAL MANAGEMENT UNIT | 2026-08-27 → present |
| Deputy Warden of Security | SPECIAL MANAGEMENT UNIT | 2026-04-16 → present |
| CSM CORRECTIONAL UNIT MANAGER | GEORGIA DIAGNOSTIC AND CLASSIFICATION STATE PRISON | 2023-01-01 → present |
| CSM Correctional Unit Manager | GEORGIA DIAGNOSTIC AND CLASSIFICATION STATE PRISON | 2023-11-22 → 2023-11-22 |
| CSM CORRECTIONAL LIEUTENANT | 2017-01-01 → 2022-12-31 | |
| CSM CORRECTIONAL OFFICER 2 | GEORGIA DIAGNOSTIC AND CLASSIFICATION STATE PRISON | 2016-01-01 → 2016-12-31 |
| CORRECTIONS OFFICER(WL) | GEORGIA DIAGNOSTIC AND CLASSIFICATION STATE PRISON | 2015-01-01 → 2015-12-31 |
| Correctional Officer | GEORGIA DIAGNOSTIC AND CLASSIFICATION STATE PRISON | 2000-01-01 → 2000-12-31 |
Deaths attributed during tenure
1 people died at facilities under Douglas, Jalaludin K's leadership.
| Date | Decedent | Age | Facility | Role at time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-30 | ANTONY RAMON PENICK | 32 | SPECIAL MANAGEMENT UNIT | Deputy Warden of Security |
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