Fanning, Jacqueline

Tenure Summary

Jacqueline Fanning joined the Georgia Department of Corrections in 2015 as an Adult Basic Education Instructor at Phillips State Prison, later transitioning through behavioral health counselor and social services consultant roles before reaching the facility-deputy tier in 2022. GPS records show four deaths at facilities where Fanning held a leadership-accountability role — all at Burruss Correctional Training Center (Burruss C.T.C.) during her tenure as Correctional Assistant Superintendent from 2023 through at least mid-2025. No lawsuits naming Fanning as a defendant appear in GPS records.

What Happened on Their Watch

West Central Integrated Treatment Facility — Correctional Asst. Superintendent (2022)
GPS records show Fanning held the facility-deputy role at West Central Integrated Treatment Facility during calendar year 2022. No deaths are attributed to her tenure there in GPS records, and no lawsuits or intel reports are linked to this posting.

Burruss C.T.C. — Correctional Asst. Superintendent (2023–2025)
GPS records attribute four deaths at Burruss C.T.C. during Fanning's tenure as Correctional Assistant Superintendent. Jonathan Lee Mischloney, 46, died on March 3, 2024 (cause category 6). Christopher Troy Campbell, 58, died on June 26, 2024 (cause category 6). Anthony James WalkerTriplett, 21, died on September 9, 2024 (cause category 6). Tyler Michael Zacher, 22, died on February 3, 2025; GPS records list the cause as homicide. Three of the four decedents were relatively young — ages 21, 22, and 46 — and the homicide classification of Zacher's death is the only cause-of-death notation provided in the records. No lawsuits naming Fanning are on file, and no intel reports are linked to the Burruss facility in GPS records.

Earlier Postings — Phillips State Prison and Arrendale State Prison (non-leadership roles, 2015–2020)
Fanning served at Phillips State Prison as an instructor (2015–2016) and at Arrendale State Prison as a Behavioral Health Counselor (2018) in roles GPS records classify as below the leadership-accountability tier. Nonetheless, both facilities experienced significant documented incidents. At Phillips, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution alleges that officers arranged for Quafabian Melik McBride, 19, to be brought to the lockdown unit on the day he was killed in a gang-related stabbing on September 30, 2022 — after Fanning had left the facility. A DOJ-cited account holds that McBride's killing triggered a gang war across multiple GDC prisons, with Bloods attacking Crips over several days and 20 prisoners hospitalized. The AJC further alleges that Dave Stone, 61, was assaulted in a mental health ward at Phillips — apparently with two pipes wrapped in cloth — resulting in brain death on November 20, 2021. These events post-date Fanning's instructor posting at Phillips and occurred while she held non-leadership roles elsewhere; GPS records do not attribute them to her. At Arrendale, where Fanning worked as a counselor in 2018, GPS records document later incidents including two alleged strangulation homicides in the mental health unit in 2024 and a 2021 incident in which GDC blocked state lawmakers from entering the facility amid investigations into inhumane treatment — all occurring years after her departure.

Sources

• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — allegations regarding McBride gang-related stabbing and Dave Stone assault at Phillips State Prison
• DOJ investigation findings — gang war triggered by McBride homicide across multiple GDC prisons
• GPS records — four deaths attributed to Burruss C.T.C. during Fanning's facility-deputy tenure, 2024–2025; career position and salary data, 2015–2025

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on May 6, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.