Fleming, Charles M

Tenure Summary

Charles M. Fleming has served in the Georgia Department of Corrections since at least 2015, rising through the ranks from Correction Operations to Correctional Superintendent. His career includes facility-level leadership roles at the Charles D. Hudson Transitional Center, first as Deputy Warden (2021) and later as Superintendent (2025). During his overall leadership tenure — encompassing roles with accountability tiers of unit supervisor, facility deputy, and facility lead — GPS records attribute a total of one death to a facility under his command. That death occurred in 2025 at Charles D. Hudson Transitional Center while Fleming held the top facility post. No lawsuits name Fleming personally as a defendant, though the facility itself has drawn scrutiny: a $200,000 state settlement was paid for a 2023 incident there, and GPS intelligence reports document a violent episode involving a correctional CERT team at the center in April 2025, during his superintendency.

What happened on their watch

Charles D. Hudson Transitional Center (2021, 2025)
In 2021 Fleming served as Deputy Warden at this facility; no deaths are attributed to that year of his tenure. He returned as Correctional Superintendent in 2025. On June 24, 2025, resident Mickey Skyles, age 62, died while in custody at the center and while Fleming was the facility’s superintendent, according to GPS records. The cause category is classified but details are not specified in available data.

GPS intelligence records from April 6, 2025, when Fleming was superintendent, document an alleged incident at the center in which a CERT Team from Rutledge, reportedly under the direction of Lt. Lonesca Carlton, assaulted multiple residents without justification. One resident, Michael Schullerman, was allegedly beaten, sustaining a split lip that required 12 stitches; the records further allege that Schullerman was coerced into falsifying a statement about the injury. While these allegations were recorded in intelligence reports, they have not been independently confirmed in news reports or legal filings reviewed by GPS.

Separately, state settlement records show that the Georgia Department of Administrative Services paid $200,000 in a liability settlement tied to Charles D. Hudson Transitional Center for an incident involving Brenda Etheridge in 2023. Although Fleming’s duty location for that year is not specified in GPS data, the settlement emerged from the facility where he would later serve as superintendent.

Litigation

No lawsuits naming Fleming as a defendant appear in the provided records.

Sources

• GPS personnel records and death records — career timeline, death of Mickey Skyles on June 24, 2025, at Charles D. Hudson Transitional Center.
• GPS intelligence records — multiple entries documenting alleged CERT Team assault on Michael Schullerman, April 6, 2025, while Fleming was Correctional Superintendent.
• Georgia Department of Administrative Services (DOAS) Risk Management settlement ledger (Open Records) — $200,000 settlement for Brenda Etheridge incident (2023) at Charles D. Hudson Transitional Center.

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Jul 12, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.