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Douglas, Jalaludin K
Status: active
Profile written June 28, 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
Jalaludin K. Douglas has served in the Georgia Department of Corrections since 2000, progressing from correctional officer to supervisory roles. He worked as a correctional officer at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison (GDCP) in 2000 and again from 2015 to 2016, then held lieutenant posts without a recorded facility assignment from 2017 through 2022. He returned to GDCP as a CSM Correctional Unit Manager from 2023 to 2025, and on April 16, 2026, he became Deputy Warden of Security at the Special Management Unit (SMU). GPS records attribute one death to his leadership tenure — at the SMU — and no lawsuits name him as a defendant. During his earlier supervisory stint at GDCP, the facility was severely overcrowded and experienced multiple security failures, but no deaths are tied to his watch there.What happened on their watch
Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison — Unit Manager (2023–2025)
Douglas served as unit manager at GDCP while the prison held 4,540 people, operating at 568% of its original 800-person design capacity, according to GPS records. No deaths were attributed to his leadership during this period. However, the facility suffered repeated security breakdowns. In June 2024, newly convicted inmate Shane Tassi was photographed on a contraband phone displaying a homemade shank and throwing gang signs just days after his arrival, per an Atlanta Journal-Constitution report. That same month, the AJC documented an assault where inmate Brandon Trace Burrell was stabbed numerous times while under the influence of methamphetamine. In April 2024, inmate Ronald Allen sustained severe frostbite damage to both hands while working with frozen meat and inadequate protective equipment; the incident later prompted a federal civil rights lawsuit, Allen v. Georgia Department of Corrections, filed in March 2026. Douglas is not named as a defendant in that suit. Contraband cellphones also proliferated: the AJC found that convicted trafficker David “Toro” Zavala had 35 cellphones seized from him at GDCP, and an officer admitted receiving payoffs to tip off a death-row inmate about shakedowns. While none of these events resulted in deaths linked to Douglas’s tenure, they underscored a pattern of violence, medical neglect, and contraband that later defined the facility’s public record, including the June 2025 neglect death of Mark Smith — a death that occurred after Douglas had left GDCP for the SMU.Special Management Unit — Deputy Warden of Security (April 2026–present)
Douglas was appointed Deputy Warden of Security at the SMU on April 16, 2026. The facility was already under a federal contempt order issued in April 2024, when U.S. District Judge Marc T. Treadwell found that GDC officials had falsified records, backdated documents, and stalled compliance with a 2019 settlement meant to improve conditions. A U.S. Department of Justice report in late 2024 had described Georgia’s prisons as “inhumane,” citing widespread assaults, stabbings, rapes, and killings in understaffed units. GPS records show that on May 30, 2026 — less than two months into Douglas’s tenure — inmate Antony Ramon Penick, 32, died at the SMU. The precise cause of death is not recorded in GPS’s database. According to GPS, this is the only death attributed to any leadership role held by Douglas, bringing his total to one.Sources
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution — multiple investigations documenting contraband, assaults, medical neglect, and systemic failures at GDCP and SMU.
- GPS records — personnel positions, death record for Antony Ramon Penick, facility capacity data (GDCP at 568% design).
- Federal court records — contempt order against GDC (April 2024), DOJ investigation findings (2024).
Positions Held
| Title | Facility | Tenure |
|---|---|---|
| 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 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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