Farmer, Jeffrey A

Tenure Summary

Jeffrey A. Farmer entered the Georgia Department of Corrections in 2015 as a correctional officer, worked as a behavioral health counselor from 2016 through 2020, and moved to the custody side in 2021 as Correctional Assistant Superintendent at Baldwin State Prison. He was promoted to Deputy Warden at Baldwin in 2023 and, on July 16, 2026, was named Deputy Warden of Care and Treatment at the same facility — the post he holds as of these records.

GPS's death registry attributes 50 deaths to Farmer's leadership tenures, all of them at Baldwin State Prison. The records provided contain no lawsuit naming Farmer individually as a defendant; the accountability record assembled here instead rests on deaths logged at the facility, a state liability settlement tied to Baldwin, and published allegations — about gang-directed contraband, inadequately documented assaults, and understaffing — dated to the periods in which he held a leadership role there.

What happened on their watch

Baldwin State Prison — Correctional Assistant Superintendent, 2021–2022. Farmer's first leadership posting overlapped a stretch of documented violence inside the facility. Incident records dated to this tenure include the June 15, 2021 death of Jose Martin Ibarra Garcia, 41, from multiple stab wounds; the July 23, 2021 death of Edward Jamar McCloud, 40, from a sharp-force injury to the neck; the August 11, 2021 killing of Jamari McClinton, 21, five days after his transfer from Phillips State Prison, where per AJC reporting he had been in protective custody after gang threats; and the August 21, 2021 death of Bedarius Clark, 26, found unresponsive in the prison's segregation unit, which GDC described as an assault. In 2021 the Department of Justice announced it was investigating violence and conditions in Georgia state prisons. On December 6, 2022, a $5,000 state liability settlement tied to Baldwin State Prison was recorded for an incident involving Johnnie D. Jackson, per the GA DOAS Risk Management settlement ledger. A record dated 2021 describes then-Lieutenant Tracey Wise smuggling K-2-laced papers for prisoner Ryan Brandt.

Baldwin State Prison — Deputy Warden, 2023–2025. Deaths recorded at Baldwin while Farmer held the Deputy Warden title include:

• Michael Donald Gross died September 20, 2023, at Baldwin State Prison; GPS's death registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical and his age as 58.
• Johnny Lee Vaughn died October 4, 2023, at Baldwin State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Homicide and his age as 39.
• Benjamin Sr Hicks died December 13, 2023, at Baldwin State Prison; the cause is Unknown/Pending, age 64.
• James Kevin Ash died December 24, 2023, at Baldwin State Prison; the cause is Unknown/Pending, age 46.
• William Edward Smith died December 31, 2023, at Baldwin State Prison; the cause is Unknown/Pending, age 58.
• Clint Donovan Shelley died January 17, 2024, at Baldwin State Prison; the cause is Unknown/Pending, age 50.
• William D Moore died March 13, 2024, at Baldwin State Prison; the cause is Unknown/Pending, age 66.
• Anthony Raynard Wynn died April 15, 2024, at Baldwin State Prison; the cause is Unknown/Pending, age 62.
• Lonnie Inman died April 25, 2024, at Baldwin State Prison; the cause is Unknown/Pending, age 77.
• Tyrone Eugene Level died May 3, 2024, at Baldwin State Prison; the cause is Unknown/Pending, age 50.
• Fred Leon Lewis died June 24, 2024, at Baldwin State Prison; the cause is Unknown/Pending, age 63.
• Vincent Reshad Dyer died August 21, 2024, at Baldwin State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Homicide and his age as 50.
• Richard Lee Davenport died September 2, 2024, at Baldwin State Prison; the cause is Unknown/Pending, age 64.
• Jerry W Hulsey died September 19, 2024, at Baldwin State Prison; the cause is Unknown/Pending, age 75.
• Michael Jerome Brown died October 8, 2024, at Baldwin State Prison; the cause is Unknown/Pending, age 52.
• James Leon Floyd died October 10, 2024, at Baldwin State Prison; the cause is Unknown/Pending, age 49.
• Al Mir Harris died December 31, 2024, at Baldwin State Prison; the cause is Unknown/Pending, age 23.
• Henry Finley died January 19, 2025, at Baldwin State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Homicide.
• Walter Brown died January 22, 2025, at Baldwin State Prison; the cause is Unknown/Pending.
• Mark Tyrone Miller died February 7, 2025, at Baldwin State Prison; the cause is Unknown/Pending, age 62.
• Douglas Jerome Salter died March 27, 2025, at Baldwin State Prison; the cause is Unknown/Pending, age 87.
• Cedric Phillips died September 14, 2025, at Baldwin State Prison; the cause is Unknown/Pending, age 48.
• Jack Eubanks died October 24, 2025, at Baldwin State Prison; the cause is Unknown/Pending, age 73.

Also inside this posting: Correctional Officer Robert Clark, 42, died October 1, 2023, after an inmate assaulted him from behind with a homemade weapon, per incident records; Ricky Mathis died April 5, 2025, with GDC reporting no signs of an altercation and the body sent to the GBI crime lab; and William Knight fled a work detail on March 6, 2023. AJC reporting dated October 5, 2023 — amid a protest outside the Governor's Mansion two days earlier — described hundreds of prison employees arrested for smuggling contraband and advocates' allegations of understaffing and medical neglect; a January 2023 AJC investigation counted at least 360 Georgia prison employees arrested since 2018 on contraband-related charges. A November 14, 2023 AJC report on a 12-count federal indictment of 23 Sex Money Murder defendants — 11 incarcerated people and 3 former correctional officers — described inmate Ryan Brandt's alleged enterprise at Baldwin, a conspiring officer (Tracey Wise), and officers Kierra Williams and Shounnette Wooten, whose certification was revoked after a cellphone analysis. AJC reporting carried January 21, 2025 alleged that McClinton's protective custody was stripped on transfer, and detailed a lawsuit by the mother of Joshua Emanuel Williams alleging he was negligently placed in a cell with an inmate who had previously stabbed others. A March 23, 2025 incident record, drawn from a lawsuit, alleges an officer threw a water bottle at inmate Akeim Burgest and later returned with a shank and stabbed him while a lieutenant watched.

Baldwin State Prison — Deputy Warden of Care and Treatment, from July 16, 2026. Deaths recorded in this posting include:

• Edward Allen Pitt died July 24, 2026, at Baldwin State Prison; GPS's death registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical and his age as 65.
• Robert Franklin Barbee died August 14, 2026, at Baldwin State Prison; the cause is Unknown/Pending, age 57.

13WMAZ reported August 24, 2026 that four Baldwin correctional officers were sued over Vincent Dyer's fatal stabbing, with allegations that Dyer had reported threats and asked to be moved, that an officer allowed inmates into his dormitory, that officers did not respond during or after the attack, and that logbook entries failed to accurately document it. A separate record notes a Baldwin County jury convicted Traquan Bangs of malice murder in May for the stabbing. An inside report to GPS dated October 10, 2026 described facility water being off for much of a day, indigestion the writer suspected was linked to a broken pipe or mold on food trays, daily fights in one housing area, few officers remaining, an informal market in state clothing and sheets, and yard access only once in weeks.

Sources

• GPS death registry — named decedents, dates and cause listings at Baldwin State Prison
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — prison homicide tracking, contraband-arrest investigations, and Sex Money Murder federal case coverage (2023–2025)
• 13WMAZ — reporting on the suit against four Baldwin officers over Vincent Dyer's stabbing (August 24, 2026)
• Inside report to GPS (email) — Baldwin conditions account dated October 10, 2026
• GA DOAS Risk Management settlement ledger (Open Records) — $5,000 Baldwin State Prison settlement, December 6, 2022
• GDC Office of Professional Standards and Georgia Bureau of Investigation — investigation references in facility incident records

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Oct 18, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.