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Fraser, Yolande

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Profile written August 30, 2026

Current Position Superintendent Helms Facility
Salary $77,667 2025 · state payroll
Deaths Under Their Watch 14 during their tenure

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

Yolande Fraser entered the Georgia Department of Corrections as a behavioral health counselor in 2015, later holding behavioral health counselor supervisor roles, including at Metro Reentry Facility in 2017. By 2019 she was a correctional unit manager at Metro Reentry, and from 2020 through 2023 she served as deputy warden there. GPS records attribute 14 deaths to her leadership tenure, all at Metro Reentry Facility while she was deputy warden. No lawsuits naming Fraser as a defendant appear in the provided records. Beginning in 2024, records place her at Helms Facility in warden/deputy warden roles and, from January 2025, as correctional superintendent and then superintendent.

What happened on their watch

Metro Reentry Facility — Deputy Warden (2020–2023)

The 14 deaths attributed to Fraser’s tenure occurred between Nov. 6, 2020 and Nov. 4, 2023 at Metro Reentry. GPS records name the decedents as Rodney Laronn Mobley, 55; Christopher Pettis, 31; James Oscar Leachman, 51; David Lee Treadwell, 61; Carl Frederick Ziegenbein, 36; Larry Jerome Fowler, 59; Jerry Wayne McBride, 73; Terrence Tyrece Taylor, 49; Rebecca Lynn Harkins, 56; Farrell Todd Collins, 43; Charlie B Bowen, 78; Bobby C Gayton, 81; Roy Edward Harrell, 75; and James Joseph Marino, 40.

For seven of the 14, DeKalb County Medical Examiner records in the GPS extract list a natural manner: Treadwell (stage III lung cancer, DNR in place), McBride (cardio-respiratory arrest; CHF, pacemaker, COVID-19 positive; DNR; hospice bed could not be located before death), Harkins (complications of stage 4 hepatocellular carcinoma; investigator initially listed manner undetermined; facility staff uncooperative and could not account for last-known-alive time or next of kin), Collins (acute myocardial infarct due to coronary artery atherosclerosis; toxicology detected fentanyl and lorazepam, neither marked contributory), Bowen (stage 4 metastatic prostate cancer), Gayton (coronary artery disease), and Harrell (cancer/cardiac; COPD, pancreatitis, metastatic bone cancer). Four other deaths — Mobley, Pettis, Leachman, and Ziegenbein — were coded natural by GDC in data obtained through the UCLA Law Behind Bars Data Project; those are GDC classifications, not autopsy findings, per the dataset notes. The extract provides no narrative death notes for Fowler, Taylor, and Marino.

Helms Facility — Warden/Deputy Warden/Superintendent (2024–present)

Records list Fraser at Helms Facility from January 2024, with a Warden (Helms Facility) posting and a calendar-year 2024 Deputy Warden salary record at the same facility. She is then listed as Correctional Superintendent from Jan. 1–15, 2025, and as Superintendent beginning Jan. 16, 2025. GPS records show no deaths attributed to her Helms Facility tenure in the provided data.

Sources

  • GPS personnel records and custodial mortality database for Georgia Department of Corrections positions and death counts.
  • DeKalb County Medical Examiner case records for Metro Reentry Facility deaths (case nos. 21-1956, 22-0361, 22-2102, 22-2126, 22-2446, 23-0226, 23-1865).
  • GDC official mortality report, used for the Bobby C. Gayton date correction.
  • UCLA Law Behind Bars Data Project custodial mortality dataset, GA-Individual.csv, GDC open-records coding for 2015–2021.

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Aug 30, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.

Positions Held

TitleFacilityTenure
Correctional SuperintendentHELMS FACILITY2026-08-27 → present
SuperintendentHELMS FACILITY2025-01-16 → present
CORRECTIONAL SUPERINTENDENTHELMS FACILITY2025-01-01 → present
Warden (Helms Facility)HELMS FACILITY2024-01-01 → present
DEPUTY WARDENHELMS FACILITY2024-01-01 → 2024-12-31
Deputy WardenMETRO REENTRY FACILITY2023-11-22 → 2023-11-22
DEPUTY WARDENMETRO REENTRY FACILITY2020-01-01 → 2023-12-31
CSM CORRECTIONAL UNIT MANAGERMETRO REENTRY FACILITY2019-01-01 → 2019-12-31
BEHAVIORAL HLTH COUNSELOR SPV2018-01-01 → 2018-12-31
BEHAVIORAL HLTH COUNSELOR SPVMETRO REENTRY FACILITY2017-01-01 → 2017-12-31
BEHAVIORAL HLTH COUNSELOR SPV2016-01-01 → 2016-12-31
BEH HEALTH/COUNSELOR (WL)2015-01-01 → 2015-12-31

Deaths attributed during tenure

14 people died at facilities under Fraser, Yolande's leadership.

DateDecedentAgeFacilityRole at time
2023-11-04JAMES JOSEPH MARINO40METRO REENTRY FACILITYDEPUTY WARDEN
2023-10-20ROY EDWARD HARRELL75METRO REENTRY FACILITYDEPUTY WARDEN
2023-01-29BOBBY C GAYTON81METRO REENTRY FACILITYDEPUTY WARDEN
2022-12-27CHARLIE B BOWEN78METRO REENTRY FACILITYDEPUTY WARDEN
2022-11-13FARRELL TODD COLLINS43METRO REENTRY FACILITYDEPUTY WARDEN
2022-11-08REBECCA LYNN HARKINS56METRO REENTRY FACILITYDEPUTY WARDEN
2022-10-27TERRENCE TYRECE TAYLOR49METRO REENTRY FACILITYDEPUTY WARDEN
2022-02-14JERRY WAYNE MCBRIDE73METRO REENTRY FACILITYDEPUTY WARDEN
2022-02-10LARRY JEROME FOWLER59METRO REENTRY FACILITYDEPUTY WARDEN
2021-10-15DAVID LEE TREADWELL61METRO REENTRY FACILITYDEPUTY WARDEN
2021-08-19CARL FREDERICK ZIEGENBEIN36METRO REENTRY FACILITYDEPUTY WARDEN
2021-05-04JAMES OSCAR LEACHMAN51METRO REENTRY FACILITYDEPUTY WARDEN
2021-01-04CHRISTOPHER PETTIS31METRO REENTRY FACILITYDEPUTY WARDEN
2020-11-06RODNEY LARONN MOBLEY55METRO REENTRY FACILITYDEPUTY WARDEN

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