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Farmer, Jeffrey A
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Profile written August 16, 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
Jeffrey A. Farmer began Georgia Department of Corrections service as a correctional officer in 2015, then worked as a behavioral health counselor from 2016 through 2020 before entering facility leadership at Baldwin State Prison. GPS records place him as a correctional assistant superintendent at Baldwin in 2021–2022 and as deputy warden from 2023 through 2025; individual death records supplied also list him as deputy warden into 2026.
GPS records attribute 59 deaths to Baldwin State Prison during Farmer’s facility-leadership tenure, all at Baldwin. No lawsuit naming Farmer as an individual defendant appears in the structured record, though lawsuits and allegations have targeted Baldwin staff and the GDC over incidents during his tenure.
What happened on their watch
Baldwin State Prison — correctional assistant superintendent (2021–2022)
During Farmer’s assistant superintendent period, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Georgia Prison Homicides Investigation documented multiple homicides at Baldwin: Jamari McClinton, 21, was stabbed on August 11, 2021, five days after a transfer from Phillips State Prison where he had been in protective custody; Bedarius Clark, 26, was found unresponsive in the segregation unit on August 21, 2021; Edward McCloud, 40, died of a sharp-force neck injury on July 23, 2021; and Jose Martin Ibarra Garcia, 41, died of multiple stab wounds on June 15, 2021. GPS notes that GDC’s own coding, obtained by the UCLA Law Behind Bars Data Project via open records, classified some 2021 Baldwin deaths as “Natural” or “Undetermined”; in McCloud’s case, GDC’s “Natural” classification conflicts with the AJC homicide attribution. The supplied sample also includes several 2022 Baldwin deaths without narrative causes, including James Lee Black, 27; Deandre Glover, 24; and Willie Mitchell, 77. A 2022 state liability payout of $5,000 to Johnnie D. Jackson, tied to a Baldwin incident, appears in the Georgia DOAS settlement ledger during this period.
Baldwin State Prison — deputy warden (2023–2025; death sample extends into 2026)
Records listing Farmer as deputy warden include the May 2, 2023 stabbing death of Fredrick Louis Spears Jr., 27, and the October 4, 2023 death of Johnny Lee Vaughn, 39, after a fight. On October 1, 2023, Correctional Officer Robert Clark, 42, was killed by an inmate with a homemade weapon. Vincent Reshad Dyer, 50, died August 21, 2024 from sharp-force chest trauma; GPS incident records show homicide, fight, and contraband flags. GPS intel records describe an allegation that Almir Harris, 23, died December 31, 2024 from diabetic ketoacidosis after medical care was denied. A GDC-released January 2025 mortality PDF listed Henry Finley’s death as homicide due to multiple puncture wounds. GPS records show the GDC Office of Professional Standards opened an investigation into the April 5, 2026 death of Ricky Mathis at Baldwin, with an autopsy pending from the GBI crime lab.
Broader patterns overlapping this period include a 2021 U.S. Department of Justice investigation into violence and conditions in Georgia prisons, an AJC finding that at least 360 Georgia prison employees had been arrested for contraband since 2018, and a 2023 federal indictment of 23 Sex Money Murder defendants, including former correctional officers. 13WMAZ reported that inmate Akeim Burgest filed a lawsuit alleging an officer shanked him while a lieutenant failed to intervene; a federal judge ordered preservation of evidence in the case. A lawsuit filed by the mother of Joshua Emanuel Williams, reported by the AJC, alleges negligent cell placement.
Sources
- GPS personnel, mortality, and intelligence records
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution — Georgia Prison Homicides Investigation
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution — reporting on contraband arrests, the federal gang indictment, and prison conditions
- 13WMAZ — reporting on the Baldwin State Prison guard lawsuit and federal preservation order
- UCLA Law Behind Bars Data Project custodial mortality dataset (GDC coding via open records)
- GDC Office of Professional Standards / GDC January 2025 mortality PDF
- GA DOAS Risk Management settlement ledger
- U.S. Department of Justice — 2021 investigation announcement
Positions Held
| Title | Facility | Tenure |
|---|---|---|
| Deputy Warden | BALDWIN STATE PRISON | 2026-08-27 → present |
| DEPUTY WARDEN | BALDWIN STATE PRISON | 2023-01-01 → present |
| Deputy Warden | BALDWIN STATE PRISON | 2023-11-22 → 2023-11-22 |
| CORRECTIONAL ASST. SUPT | BALDWIN STATE PRISON | 2021-01-01 → 2022-12-31 |
| BEHAVIORAL HLTH COUNSELOR 2 | 2019-01-01 → 2020-12-31 | |
| BEHAVIORAL HLTH COUNSELOR 3 | 2016-01-01 → 2018-12-31 | |
| CORRECTIONS OFFICER(WL) | 2015-01-01 → 2015-12-31 |
Deaths attributed during tenure
59 people died at facilities under Farmer, Jeffrey A's leadership.
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