Glenn, Phillip

Tenure Summary

Phillip Glenn's recorded GDC career spans two decades and two facilities. The positions table shows a 2004 Trades Supervisor posting at Coastal State Prison, a 2011 Maintenance Engineer posting at Smith State Prison, a 2014 Deputy Warden of Administration role at Coastal, a 2015 Business Operations entry and Deputy Warden entries from 2016 through 2021 with no facility listed, Deputy Warden at Coastal for 2022 and 2023, and finally Coastal's WARDEN 2 from January 1, 2024, and Warden from June 16, 2024, through May 31, 2026. His 2025 salary at the Coastal warden tier is listed at $103,452.

GPS attributes 98 deaths to his leadership tenures; `deaths_by_facility` places all 98 at Coastal State Prison. Those are the authoritative totals. The individual death rows in the file are a capped, most-recent sample (running through an August 30, 2026 death) provided so decedents can be named, not counted. Glenn is listed as a defendant in one federal case, Hagans v. Ward.

What happened on their watch

Coastal State Prison — Trades Supervisor (2004); Deputy Warden of Administration (2014). No death records in the retained sample fall within either single-year posting.

Smith State Prison — Maintenance Engineer (2011). No death record in the sample falls in this posting. The Smith State intel reports in this file — RICO, bribery and contraband allegations against former Warden Brian Adams and officer Ireon Moore, the June 2024 killing of Aramark worker Aureon Shavea Grace, and AJC reporting that two-thirds of officer posts were unfilled — concern other named officials and events from 2022 forward. They do not overlap Glenn's 2011 maintenance role.

Coastal State Prison — Deputy Warden (2022–2023). The sample's earliest retained records fall in this period, including Travis Akeem Coleman (31), Roy Winnen Bridges (85), Joshua Bobby Johnson (28) and King E. Calloway (76). Per the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's prison-homicide investigation, the October 20, 2023 death of Salomon Andres Ramirez, 43, was an apparent homicide, occurring while Glenn held the deputy warden role. Ryan Chase Archer, 25, died December 13, 2023.

Coastal State Prison — Warden 2 / Warden (January 2024 – May 31, 2026). Most retained records fall here, and most carry no published cause of death — consistent with a GPS provenance note that GDC has never published cause of death apart from the January 2025 mortality list. Two January 2025 entries do carry causes from that official GDC PDF: Ricky Chamblee ("Acute Respiratory Failure with Hypoxia/ DVT/ COPD") and Lloyd Chapman ("Acute Respiratory Failure"). Among 2026 records, a GPS user report states Aiden Snapp, 21, "was brutally beaten" and died of head injuries and internal bleeding on February 26, 2026; a separate user report describes Anteveis Brown, 49, dying the same day after a stabbing in Dorm A2, a record that GPS later corrected because its cause had been wrongly labeled GDC-official.

A GPS-260903-742044 report attributes the August 30, 2026 death of Sheldon Leroy Burns to delayed medical response; a public Facebook post alleges staff ignored his health complaints and that an officer left her post while residents "beat on the doors and windows" for 30–40 minutes. That entry labels the role at time of death as WARDEN 2, although the positions table shows Glenn's warden tenure ending May 31, 2026, and David Stokes reassigned as Coastal warden effective June 1, 2026.

Facility-level items during the warden period include a Georgia Department of Public Health inspection on April 23, 2026 that graded Coastal 70 (live roaches, a dead mouse, mold, improper food temperatures), a health-score slide from 87 in February 2025 to 70; WTOC records showing over $5,000 in pest control spending across May–November 2025; a WTOC/Georgia Prisoners' Speak report of a claimed "human rights crisis" (February 12, 2026); an inmate report of kitchen closure and food shortages (May 2026); five inmates indicted for a violent assault (October 2025); and an employee arrested January 23, 2026 for trading with inmates without the warden's consent. A GPS intel entry summarizes the 2024 DOJ investigation as finding Georgia prisons, including Coastal, failing to protect inmates from violence and neglect. Two witness-claim reports from a man released in June 2026 describe killings and assaults he says he witnessed at Coastal; those reports state GPS mortality data documents 103 deaths at Coastal across that window.

Litigation

• Hagans v. Ward, No. 4:23-cv-00352 (S.D. Ga.), filed December 14, 2023, terminated July 16, 2025; no outcome amount recorded. Glenn appears among the defendants per court records.

Sources

• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — prison-homicide investigation (Ramirez; suits over Kion E. Parks, Rufus Ramon Lee, Hiwatha Abdulcah Hakeem Jr.); "Prisons' inside job"; "How'd a gun get inside GA's deadliest prison"; "Lawmakers eye a remake of the Georgia prison system"
• WTOC — Coastal inmate deaths, human rights crisis report, pest-control records, DPH inspection coverage
• CourtListener docket — Hagans v. Ward, 4:23-cv-00352
• GDC official mortality reports — CY2024 (ORR R018717-012425) and January 2025 PDF (Chamblee, Chapman causes)
• Georgia Department of Public Health — April 23, 2026 Coastal inspection
• The Marshall Project (Jan. 10, 2024) — understaffing/overtime; The Georgia Virtue — Smith State indictments; In These Times — strike allegations
• GPS user, witness and Telegram-relay reports, including GPS-260903-742044, GPS-DEATH-2026-AE189 and GPS-DEATH-2026-A6338

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Sep 13, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.