Goettie, Michael L

Tenure Summary

Michael L. Goettie's GDC career began in 2015 as a Corrections Officer (SP) and moved steadily upward: CSM Correctional Officer 2 in 2016; CSM Correctional Lieutenant from 2017 through 2019; CSM Correctional Unit Manager in 2020. None of those early postings carry a facility in the records. From 2021 he has held facility-leadership roles at Rogers State Prison — Deputy Warden from 2021 through 2025, and Deputy Warden of Security from July 16, 2026. His 2025 salary as Deputy Warden is listed at $57,519.95.

GPS attributes 13 deaths to Goettie's leadership tenure, all of them at Rogers State Prison. The pattern is dominated by five suicides, three overdoses, and five natural/medical deaths among men ranging in age from 21 to 60. One lawsuit naming him as a defendant, Daker v. Oliver Filing Restriction Per 59 Order, was filed June 6, 2025 and terminated March 30, 2026, with no monetary outcome recorded.

What happened on their watch

Rogers State Prison — Deputy Warden (2021–2025)

The following 13 men died while Goettie held the Deputy Warden role at Rogers State Prison. Dates and causes are as GPS's death registry lists them:

• Chad Walker Jeter died March 17, 2021, at Rogers State Prison; registry lists cause as Suicide, age 43.
• Michael Glenn Mckee died May 22, 2021, at Rogers State Prison; registry lists cause as Suicide, age 59.
• Jeremy Lasean Walton died June 12, 2021, at Rogers State Prison; registry lists cause as Suicide, age 31.
• Timothy Brent Jenkins died April 7, 2022, at Rogers State Prison; registry lists cause as Overdose, age 22.
• Caleb Sexton died April 22, 2022, at Rogers State Prison; registry lists cause as Overdose, age 21.
• Bradley Lyle Weitzel died March 21, 2023, at Rogers State Prison; registry lists cause as Natural/Medical, age 40.
• William Joseph Smiley died August 15, 2023, at Rogers State Prison; registry lists cause as Overdose, age 41.
• Randall Henry Baker died December 6, 2023, at Rogers State Prison; registry lists cause as Natural/Medical, age 38.
• Shawn Remar Johnson died July 23, 2024, at Rogers State Prison; registry lists cause as Natural/Medical, age 34.
• Taylor Anthony Hunt died September 28, 2024, at Rogers State Prison; registry lists cause as Suicide, age 29.
• David Edward Wood died February 4, 2025, at Rogers State Prison; registry lists cause as Natural/Medical. No age is recorded.
• Justin Waymon Hollingsworth died June 26, 2025, at Rogers State Prison; registry lists cause as Suicide, age 43.
• Randy Eugene Stewart died July 17, 2025, at Rogers State Prison; registry lists cause as Natural/Medical, age 60.

Hunt's death is the subject of repeated GPS intel entries dated September 1, 2024, which state that GDC classified the death as a suicide while the body showed ligature marks, broken bones, bruises, puncture wounds and stab wounds, and that the official ruling was contradicted by evidence. Those entries are allegations and characterizations carried by GPS's intel record, not findings of fact.

Rogers State Prison — Deputy Warden of Security (from July 16, 2026)

Three reports dated September 1, 2026, are logged against this role, all drawn from a public comment in a Georgia prison family group by a formerly incarcerated person. One claims that a ceiling-fan motor caught fire in a housing unit, that maintenance staff identified the motor as the cause, that facility leadership and a fire official then discussed needing to blame someone, and that a prisoner from the unit was later removed and charged. A second claims a civilian farm hand on a dairy detail supplied contraband and allowed incarcerated workers into a farm office to use a computer, then told Georgia Correctional Industries staff the workers had broken in. A third claims a counselor at the facility was arrested after contraband drugs and cell phones were found to have been brought in. Each is an allegation attributed to that commenter.

Litigation

• Daker v. Oliver Filing Restriction Per 59 Order, case no. 1:25-cv-03191, filed June 6, 2025 in GAND, terminated March 30, 2026; no monetary outcome recorded. Goettie appears as a defendant while holding the Deputy Warden role at Rogers State Prison.

Sources

• GPS death registry — 13 deaths recorded at Rogers State Prison during Goettie's Deputy Warden tenure
• GPS intel events — repeated September 1, 2024 entries on the death of Taylor Hunt
• Facebook, public comment in a Georgia prison family group (September 1, 2026) — three accounts attributed to the Deputy Warden of Security role at Rogers State Prison
• CourtListener docket — Daker v. Oliver Filing Restriction Per 59 Order, 1:25-cv-03191 (GAND)

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Oct 11, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.