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Fulbright, Joshua Craig
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Profile written August 2, 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
Joshua Craig Fulbright began his career with the Georgia Department of Corrections in 2011 as a correctional officer at Lee Arrendale State Prison. Over the next thirteen years he rose through the ranks—sergeant, lieutenant, captain, and unit manager—before transferring to Phillips State Prison in October 2024 as Deputy Warden of Security, a role that was later reflected as Deputy Warden in state payroll records. GPS records show that 26 people died in custody at Phillips State Prison during Fulbright’s facility-deputy tenure, which spans from October 2024 through at least mid-January 2026. No lawsuits name Fulbright as a defendant.What happened on their watch
Phillips State Prison — Deputy Warden of Security / Deputy Warden (October 2024–January 2026) GPS records attribute 26 deaths to Phillips State Prison during Fulbright’s time as a deputy warden. The deaths, documented through Gwinnett County coroner and GBI medical examiner reports obtained via open-records requests, show a mix of manners: the majority were ruled natural (e.g., Willie Roseborough, John Tolbert, Harry Taldon, Joseph Ulrich, and others); three were homicides (Jody Stokes by strangulation, Corey Madison Cochran, and Brandon Lashaun Mincey); three were suicides (Terry Nichols, Christopher Blake Hines, and Nile Baptiste Young); two were accidents (Justin Curtis Kinsey and Kendrick Keon Scales); and the rest were classified as undetermined or cause unknown. The death of Leroy Brooks on December 9, 2024, drew family opposition: his daughter told the medical examiner’s investigator that Brooks had a history of being beaten in custody and that she did not believe the death was natural; the medical examiner declined jurisdiction, and the death certificate was to be signed by the prison physician as natural based on medical history, but the cause remains contested in GPS’s investigative case files. Two of the suicides—Hines (March 2025) and Young (October 2024)—had GBI Division of Forensic Sciences toxicology and narrative reports still listed as “testing incomplete” more than 16 and 21 months after death, respectively, a delay that mirrors broader patterns in GDC death investigations.The facility’s recent history includes allegations of staff complicity in violence. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, officers allegedly arranged for a prisoner to be brought to a lockdown unit on the day he was killed in a 2022 gang-related stabbing, and another prisoner was allegedly assaulted in a mental health ward. Those incidents predate Fulbright’s arrival, but they form a backdrop of persistent security failures at Phillips. No new allegations directly tied to Fulbright’s conduct appear in the intel records reviewed.
Sources
- Gwinnett County Coroner / GBI Medical Examiner reports — multiple in-custody death determinations for Phillips State Prison, received and OCR’d by GPS (2026)
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution — reporting on officer-arranged cell moves and assaults at Phillips State Prison (2026)
- Georgia Department of Corrections — January 2025 mortality data release, used to establish cause-of-death for several early-2025 deaths
- GPS intelligence records — open-records requests, death tracking, and facility incident database
Positions Held
| Title | Facility | Tenure |
|---|---|---|
| DEPUTY WARDEN | PHILLIPS STATE PRISON | 2025-01-01 → present |
| Deputy Warden of Security | PHILLIPS STATE PRISON | 2024-10-01 → 2026-01-15 |
| CSM CORRECTIONAL UNIT MANAGER | 2024-01-01 → 2024-09-30 | |
| CSM CORRECTIONAL CAPTAIN | Arrendale State Prison | 2022-01-01 → 2023-12-31 |
| CSM CORRECTIONAL OFFICER 2 | 2018-01-01 → 2018-12-31 | |
| CSM CORRECTIONAL LIEUTENANT | Arrendale State Prison | 2017-01-01 → 2017-12-31 |
| CSM CORRECTIONAL SERGEANT | Arrendale State Prison | 2016-01-01 → 2016-12-31 |
| CORRECTIONS OFFICER(WL) | Arrendale State Prison | 2015-01-01 → 2015-12-31 |
| Correctional Officer | Arrendale State Prison | 2011-01-01 → 2011-12-31 |
Deaths attributed during tenure
26 people died at facilities under Fulbright, Joshua Craig's leadership.
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